Road Bike Disc Brake Standards
Buy a mid range disc brake equipped road bike or cyclocross bike at the moment and there s an extremely high chance you ll end up with a pair of trp spyres bolted to it.
Road bike disc brake standards. Brake levers having a relatively long travel in spite of pads placed very close to the discs without that brake levers would bottom out before any strong brake force is achieved. And that s a minefield. Bike of the week. There are several common ways to attach the rotor to the hub.
Common ones are the 6 bolt iso hope 3 bolt and rohloff 4 bolt. A handful of new aero road bikes like the cannondale systemsix and 2019 specialized venge are disc brake only. But this does build in constraints at both extremes of the. Switch to a disc brake bike and you ll eventually have to choose new pads.
74mm post mount a disc caliper is attached to the frame fork with two bolts that are 74mm apart center to center. 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. It looks as if the pace of change in disc bike axle standards will slow now with 12x100mm front and 12x142mm rear thru axles dominating. Bike of the year.
The first disc brake road bikes kept the 130mm hub spacing which resulted in narrow hub flanges. There are two common disc caliper mounting standards on modern disc road bikes post mount and flat mount. These are always found on the non drive side of the bike left side. Disc brakes are bringing two key axle related changes to road bikes both of which have been proven on mountain bikes.
Road disc brakes on the other hand work with ordinary brake levers and brake shift combination levers. Everything you need to know. First look friday. In the tidal wave of new disc bike drop bar bikes appearing on the market the spyre has become the benchmark for ease of setup use and reliability.
Brakes having good modulation and very strong braking power due to very large mechanical advantage caused by using road levers with a lot shorter cable pull than the calipers are designed for. So they re not new standards just new to the road. Disc brake road bikes feature specific mounting points near the front and rear wheel dropouts.