Friday, August 1, 2008

Conventional or Moto Style Brakes

For what ever reason I've always configured my brake moto-style, i.e. front brake on the right. But the conventional way to set up MTB brakes is front brake left, back brake right.

The Avid Juicy brakes I bought came ready bled and in theory a simple bolt-and-go, or maybe bolt-and-stop is more apt with brakes. Anyway my point is the brake bolts were in such a way that to bolt then on I had to tighten the lever from underneath, which was no big problem since the levels were symmetrical from above and below.

But tonight I just realised the bolt could simply be removed and turned around... D'oh!

So moto-style it is!

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