Which side are your brakes?

[olram_df]

LOL @patches

 

No a piece of cardboard into the spokes fixed onto the fork with a clothes peg

[Guest The Bushpig]

 

do you make motobike noises with your lips as you carry out this gearing down procedure?

 

Hahaha, for sure! I never managed to grow up properly; still working on it at 45! However, both times my Vaaaamm, vaaaam was cut short by the sound of my ribs hitting the ground. Kinda spoiled the fun.

[Skott5]

 

 

 

Slick, I'm not saying that the orientation doesn't matter. Hells, if I get on a bike with the brakes swopped I'll have a bad time.

 

What I'm saying is that because someone used to or still rides motobikes, it shouldn't dictate which way they have their MTB brakes. It's personal preference, not other-hobby-dictated.

 

Take Aaron Gwin for instance. He can ride MX and MTB better than 99.99% of the people on the hub (I left out 0.001 cos Mr Minn has shown face here on occasion ).

 

He rides his DH bike with levers opposite to his MX bike

 

http://cdn.mos.bikeradar.com/images/news/2010/07/07/1279

 

Ahhh when Gwinny was riding a turquoise beast ..

[Tubeless]

UK = right front

USA = left front

 

SA= well, just read this thread

[Robodog]

 

 

 

Slick, I'm not saying that the orientation doesn't matter. Hells, if I get on a bike with the brakes swopped I'll have a bad time.

 

What I'm saying is that because someone used to or still rides motobikes, it shouldn't dictate which way they have their MTB brakes. It's personal preference, not other-hobby-dictated.

 

Take Aaron Gwin for instance. He can ride MX and MTB better than 99.99% of the people on the hub (I left out 0.001 cos Mr Minn has shown face here on occasion ).

 

He rides his DH bike with levers opposite to his MX bike

 

http://cdn.mos.bikeradar.com/images/news/2010/07/07/1279119125640-bho5tblqohht-670-75.jpg

 

Yeah. I understood exactly what you were saying about the moto guys. I've never raced or owned a motorbike so never had that "problem".

 

When I hop onto a new bike and it is the other way around - which happens more often than you think - I never have a problem adapting to it for 'normal' riding. Braking technique = squeezing both levers evenly and rotating bodyweight backwards driving feet into the pedals. Never grabbing means never going over the bars.

[riaanb]

So... does anyone else ride their road and MTBs opposite to each other, like me?

[Wannabe]

So... does anyone else ride their road and MTBs opposite to each other, like me?

Nope, both left for front, right for rear.

[chris_w_65]

Only danger is that if you are a road or track motorcyclist you tend to grab a serious handful on the right lever. In a panic situation on an MTB you would do the same and you all know what happens then...

[Skylark]

 

Pull your front brakes as hard as you want and you will have to try very hard to do an endo. You cant just merrilly be riding along and pop, pop a superman. Thats braking technique not orientation. Get used to your right (or more sensitive hand) modulating speed scrub. Locking the back ends up in more severe probles, speeding banshee comes screeching into his group. Try using your front brake as much as possible in replacing speed scrubbing u normally do with the back. Once you get the hang of it, it is amazingly effective.

 

Whether this is right/left is largely irrelevant.

 

Geez man not sure what *** brakes you using or if you lube your brake pads but if I grab my front brakes as hard as I want at virtually any speed I will be sent flying over the bars. I'm quite certain thats true for any bike with correctly set up brakes....

[chris_w_65]

I was not referring to going over bars, I was referring to the front washing out in sand