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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? |
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Mechanical disc brakes run backwards
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. |
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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 :-) |
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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 -- davethedave |
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Mechanical disc brakes run backwards
Mounting the calipers on the correct side of the fork would produce less than desirable drag plus hack riders would smash them into trees.
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Mounting the calipers on the correct side of the fork would produce less than desirable drag plus hack riders would smash them into trees.
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Mechanical disc brakes run backwards
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? -- davethedave |
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Mechanical disc brakes run backwards
Why would a correctly adjusted disc and calliper set up mounted rearwards
produce drag? https://www.google.com/#q=dragging+i...le+disc+brakes |
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