Brake lever orientation

[marc two tone]

the left and right-handed person thing has to be considered too.

i'm left handed so, control for left(rear feathering for descent), power for right (crap, i'm going to crash)

 

[Raging_Bulls]

the left and right-handed person thing has to be considered too.

i'm left handed so, control for left(rear feathering for descent), power for right (crap, i'm going to crash)

I'm left-handed too, and I have the front on the left.

 

[elPedro666]

Right hand side for front brake for me, anything else would be like cheese for breakfast or throwing donkies off church steeples in the name of religion, not everything they do abroad is right; sometimes it's left!

Right front for me too, most important brake in the strongest, most controlled hand. Also a motor biker so I think it makes sense to have the same!

I used to race a lot of 'cross and a lot of cross riders would run fronts on the left to kick the rear wheel into the air when dismounting and shouldering the bike (assuming you dismount to the left [there's another discussion! ] then your left hand will still be on the hoods as you hit the ground running, grab front brake, rear of the bike bounces up, right arm through frame and away you go). But I never fancied it. Furthest I've ever seen a bike go sideways was when we chucked a team mate the nearest bike to hand after he broke his and he piled off the top of a steep, twisty, narrow, rooty drop with the levers backwards!

 

[ringo]

BITD my mate broke his collarbone... He was riding his new (to him) GT Bravado that had the brakes wired up the wrong way round...

He got into difficulty on a descent and forgot the levers were the wrong way around, pulling the front brake hard in error... That sent him over the handlebars...

 

[ringo]

BITD my mate broke his collarbone... He was riding his new (to him) GT Bravado that had the brakes wired up the wrong way round...

He got into difficulty on a descent and forgot the levers were the wrong way around, pulling the front brake hard in error... That sent him over the handlebars...