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Brake Levers ??

  • 14-01-2012 8:01pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭


    Is there a correct lever that should correspond with each brake ? I have two road bikes on one the right lever operates the back and on the other the front, is there a standard right lever to back brake or viseversa or just a mater of preference ?

    Yours Courisly !


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,278 ✭✭✭kenmc


    you can swap them easily. preference or country of manufacture usually dictates how they're set up


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Mines set up left front, right back.

    I find its useful as I can signal traffic with my right and break the same time


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,456 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    There's a UK/Ireland option - front brake right, back brake left - and a Continental/US option with the brakes reversed

    The origins relate to the side of the road you ride on - the theory at least that in Ireland and the UK you could be signalling right and therefore braking with your left hand. I was taught to use my rear brake in priority to the front one, although with modern brakes your chances of locking up the front wheel are much lower than they may have appeared when I was learning to ride a bike


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭dquirke1


    My latest bike came left-front, right-back. I got all of 200 yards from the shop before locking the back wheel and coming down in the middle of a roundabout.
    It's now changed to match my other bikes/ motorbikes, with the front brake on the right.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    This reminds me off a time of when I rented a bicycle in France and the breaks were backwards to the way I was used to them. Cycling along a busy road, a pedestrian proceeds to walk out in front of me. I panicked and pulled hard on the break I thought was the front but I just locked the rear.

    Scrubbed off enough speed not to hurt the pedestrian luckily


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 468 ✭✭VanhireBoys


    BX 19 wrote: »
    Mines set up left front, right back.

    I find its useful as I can signal traffic with my right and break the same time

    Same as that BX... ! Id say that pedestrian had to change his trousers after that ! ;)

    @Beasty - I never knew that.. Makes sense if you think of it !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,882 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    The dublinbikes use the left-front/right-rear set-up.


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