Mechanical disc brakes run backwards

It appears to me that all disc brakes on the market are meant to be mounted
on the left (non-drive) side of the bike. Therefore, any disc brake set
used on a trike must have one of the calipers mounted backwards, with the
disc pushing the pads in the other direction. I see that the discs
themselves have direction markings (so the right one should be flipped),
but are there any problems with having the caliper mounted backwards? I
realize that cable routing on one side will be less that perfect, but there
should be no spontaneous pad ejection issues or less efficient braking or
anything like that?

disc brake braking wether moving forward or backwards .....

if Shimano produced a disc brake working only in forward Shimano would prob be hooted out like EDCO was for seized hubs running oblong axles.

wrote:
disc brake braking wether moving forward or backwards .....

if Shimano produced a disc brake working only in forward Shimano would
prob be hooted out like EDCO was for seized hubs running oblong axles.

Yeah, but I'd hate to be the guy who discovered that they only work in one
direction :-)

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 13:56:47 +0000, Ralph Barone wrote:

wrote:
disc brake braking wether moving forward or backwards .....

if Shimano produced a disc brake working only in forward Shimano would
prob be hooted out like EDCO was for seized hubs running oblong axles.

Yeah, but I'd hate to be the guy who discovered that they only work in
one direction :-)

Lots of trikes have a wrong way mounted disc on the left wheel so they
should be fine.

crosses fingers and waits for tales of doom

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davethedave

Mounting the calipers on the correct side of the fork would produce less than desirable drag plus hack riders would smash them into trees.

Mounting the calipers on the correct side of the fork would produce less than desirable drag plus hack riders would smash them into trees.

On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:33:47 -0800, Jamers wrote:

Mounting the calipers on the correct side of the fork would produce less
than desirable drag plus hack riders would smash them into trees.

Why would a correctly adjusted disc and calliper set up mounted rearwards
produce drag?
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davethedave

Why would a correctly adjusted disc and calliper set up mounted rearwards

produce drag?

https://www.google.com/#q=dragging+i...le+disc+brakes