Road Bike Direct Mount Brakes

The bike is totally rad but that s not what this post is about.

Road bike direct mount brakes. Why direct mount brakes are awesome setup on such lightweight systems can be a bit finicky so we ll be interested to see how we get on installing them on reuben s reilly hill climb bike. Dual pivot caliper brakes caliper brakes are the most common types of brakes you will see on an everyday road bike and thanks to shimano the awesomeness of dual pivot calipers is trickling down to the most affordable groupsets. Some bike makers have taken almost a proprietary route to post mount brakes such as fuji which lobbied shimano to make seatstay positioned direct mount brakes for its new transonic aero bike. To try and improve the appearance of discs on road bikes shimano introduced its flat mount system.

There are three types of brakes on a road bike today dual pivot caliper direct mount and disc brakes. Direct mount brakes offer more tyre clearance than traditional calipers matthew allen immediate media given that i think a tyre around 28mm is just about perfect for most road riding that suits. Early disc equipped bikes borrowed the 74mm post mount standard from mountain bikes where the brake calliper is simply bolted directly onto the frame or fork and adapters are used to accommodate different rotor sizes. I ve never used direct mount the idea seems fine in principal but honestly i hardly ever use my brakes on a road bike compared with a mountain or cx bike.

The revelator prestige frame has direct mount brakes. I hadn t dealt with them before and thought it would be appropriate to share what i ve learned from building up and riding a bike with direct mount brakes.