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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) => Topic started by: loosenut on July 20, 2005, 12:20 AM
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While this may be the most boring poll ever, this question has always been a mystery to me!
I run my back brake lever on the left, a habit i haven't been able to kick since having my raleigh budgie back in 1977.
i always assumed having the lever on the other side was some kind of american copycat fashion thing, the old school equivalent of wearing womens jeans perhaps.
so whats yr preference (and why?)
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Right for me , don,t know why.Its not a natural thing because when i look at old photos from the early 80's i had the rear on the left. ??? :-\
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Left for me, only because I had it that way bitd, in fact I had to look at a few pics just so I could set up my first ride after 20 years :-[
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on the right for me as i just like it that way is it wrong do i need help :'(
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Left for me, don't know why, just the way it's always been? :-\
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left
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On the left for me. Hasn't it always been that way? Don't remember anything different BITD ???
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i used to run it on the right, so yo could pull it harder with your right hand and do big skids. then orb told me off and now i run it on the left. which is better for attempting rock walk.
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i had mine on the right hand side.mind im left handed does that make a difference ???.
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left handed children where often killed at birth. consider yourself lucky. :'(
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I run two brakes and its on the left for me as always :) I dont wanna confuse my mellon man :o
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1 finger braking on the left
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I run mine on the right, I've looked at pictures of my old BMX's when I was a kid and these were also on the right. I remember experimenting back then, changing sides, but the only photo's I have show on the right.
This is particularly strange as my mountain bike is on the left :-\
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just to be awkward i have the brake on my new school on right and old school on left-how i used to have it bitd.
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??? :o i thought this thread was about brake levers, but it is starting to look more like a trouser thing :o ;) "which way do you hang!!!" :D :-X
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stay in your own forum woman, you would not understand....
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Back brake on the left.I always have and I always used the 'R' from the word front to remind me that front goes right if that makes any sense??? Plus it's important when running two brakes you know which one is the front as it's easy to pull an unintentional endo and kiss concrete.. :D
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On the Robinson Race bikes the back brake is on the right.
On the Haro's (Sport and Mirra) the back brake is on the left.
No science to it it's just that my right arm is the stronger one really. (please no jokes)
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always run me rear brake on the left as i did a endo on mates bikes who had his set up wrong .and boy did that hurt
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I set them up so I can stop ;D....levers at about 25 degrees down, same angle as I had on moto x.
I always have back on left and front on right from all the time spent on freestyle....one handed endo etc as my right hand is stronger (I'm right handed), plus from spending years doing moto x and riding m/cycles.
I also found it better to get around the bike as I would usually go clockwise when onto the front wheel, over bars etc, and nearly always lay it down on the left etc...so first brake on is the front when pulling it up.
I suppose also as most people are right handed, and when learning tricks I picked up that way.
Nb.....wheeled the road (200m+) some one handed (so right hand comes off, and left hand controls speed and stability), last night on the daughters cheap mountain bike (bought by N & Grandad) and hers is the same layout....
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Gentlemen, interestingly enough it is (or was) the law. A bicycle had to have a front brake as a minimum and the lever had to be mounted on the right hand side. Coz most people are right-handed.....
For the record, I run my rear brake ont' left as I am indeed, lefthanded. :)
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I run mine on the left, it always used to be the right untill I got my first motorbike & I had to change (because motorbikes have their front on the right)
The reason English bikes have theirs on the left is because we drive on the left, so when you make a right hand turn & signal with your right hand your left hand is covering the rear brake so if you panick brake you dont go over the bars, which is why I guess we all ran our back brake on the right bitd as our bikes were American?
:) DINGO :)
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On the right im right handed so it makes sense, if your gonna do a one handed trick your gonna keep your strongest arm on the bike if possible, id have thought anyway,
Mr fruity its a bad habit usin brakes to rockwalk dude, stunts your growth and everything ;D
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stay in your own forum woman, you would not understand....
:o :-X
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Mr fruity its a bad habit usin brakes to rockwalk dude, stunts your growth and everything ;D
ah well , im big enough....
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ive heard that rumour
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Always two - back on the right, from the days when I ran just the back
Does that mean I swing both ways??
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Back Brake on the Right. This is the way Iv always had them.
Does not really matter to me tho, cos when I rode a motorbike & scooter, the front brake was on the Right, but you soon get used to it whatever way round they are. :)
Chris
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i switched my brakes in 84 when i started doing trackstands, and needed the front brake on the left.
nowadays i still run the rear on the right - i'm right handed and need most strength on the rear brake hand. it makes sense.
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Depends if running a single (rear) or a pair of brakes (f + r)...
RHS if just running a rear brake set up.
LHS if using both front and rear brakes.
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im not botherd
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The left - always has been and always will be :)
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I spose if you rode a motorbike as well you'd wanna make sure they were the same. High speed endo's aren't a lot of fun. been there done that. My rear brake has always been on the right.
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i used to run it on the right, so yo could pull it harder with your right hand and do big skids. then orb told me off and now i run it on the left. which is better for attempting rock walk.
Why are you using brakes for Rockwalks????
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left hand brake, right hand dog lead
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i ride back on the right and the front on the left its just how it come so i left it they way
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Left for me as every bike i've had came like that from new,also i kickturn to the left and lock my rear brake while letting go with my right hand on one handers.
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woops left for back right for front :uglystupid2:
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rear right. no front these days, changed over 84 or around about then. never felt the need to change back, just to lose the front brake. does it matter?
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i switched my brakes in 1984 too.
the reason for this was trackstands - standing on the left side of the bike, and needed the front brake in the right place.
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Well,although i ride my 05 Ripper with rear on the right,looking back to ye olde days,my silver streak was a left rear set up and so was my Team burner and my firebird delta2.So things have changed.
Progress ;D