Mountain Bike Fork Disc Brake Mounts

Pictures of a front flat mount.

Mountain bike fork disc brake mounts. Non disc hubs were still readily available so a company could offer their bikes with one frame built to accommodate either style of brake but save some money on the build and pass it along to the customer in a lower price by using rim brakes and. With is outside of a weird custom fork 160mm is the smallest size you can use in front but all bikes with rear is mounts can take a 140mm adapter. Find the perfect deal for disc brake mountain bike rigid forks with free shipping on many items at ebay. And choosing the best mountain bike fork is also a very tough job.

The first type has two holes drilled and tapped where the two bolts would mounted into to the fork toward the front of the bike. But rest assured we have collected 10 best mountain bike forks for you to choose. The bolts are screwed directly down into the frame fork the bolts are parallel to the plane of the wheel. The beauty of this design is that the center of the rotor to the mounting surface of the brake posts is equidistant for the front and back meaning as long as both post.

I show various disc brake mounting adapters and how they can be used to install disc. Post mount places two threaded m6x1 holes 74mm apart on the frame or fork in the orientation that a caliper can be bolted to directly without any adapter or with a post mount adapter in between along with its supplied long bolts if a larger. Whether you are riding off road tracks or riding on a bumpy road a fork will bring you comfort and ease. The 74mm spacing post mount is a carry over from mountainbikes for whichpost mount more or less replaced the previously popular is standard.

As i look to buy a used fork for my disc brake bike shimano xt disc brake component i see that there are at least two different types of disc mounts on different forks. I m afraid if you are upgrading fork suspension on a v brake bicycle you will have only some basic low end forks to choose from. Disc brakes became a standard in mountain biking simply because of stopping power they provide. Since today s fast paced world many companies make suspension fork.

I show how to convert an old vintage mtb with no frame fork disc brake mounts to disc brakes using adapters. At the time that bike was made mountain biking was quickly transitioning to disc brakes. Most rear is mounts are setup for a 140mm disc so the mount for that would be 0mm is. Relatively speaking that transition happened ages ago.

Now if you wanted a 160mm on it you would want a 20mm is and so on. This appears to be the type used by the. 74mm post mount a disc caliper is attached to the frame fork with two bolts that are 74mm apart center to center.