Road Bike Frames With 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.

Road bike frames with direct mount brakes. There is no brake track needed. The revelator prestige frame has direct mount brakes. If your a hold out like me for a standard rim brake and have direct mount brakes on your bike then the trp t980 direct mount brakes are brakes that will fit your needs. 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.

They are easy to install and have great adjustability. 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. A carbon road bike frame are the same. The bike is totally rad but that s not what this post is about.

I have other bikes with disc brakes and they re great but direct mount brakes are on another level compared to standard single bolt brakes. Where traditional rim brakes mount to your frame and fork using one bolt per brake direct mount brakes separate the caliper into two linked halves which mount on bosses either side of the wheel. Most road bikes are available in. If you want a fast specialized bike with rim brakes you ll need to look for 2019 models of the tarmac.

Brake manufacturers and bike companies could have easily adapted existing post mount brake calipers for road bikes in a timely fashion and indeed many did. As far as direct mount brakes go. Specialized is offering just three road bikes with rim brakes in 2020 and they re all variants of the entry level allez road bike. To try and improve the appearance of discs on road bikes shimano introduced its flat mount system.

The rim brake version also swaps from a single bolt to direct mount brakes. The trp t980 direct mount brake is an in between brake to the disc brake and a standard dual pivot brake. But then shimano pushed a new standard called flat mount that better complimented the sleek aesthetics that consumers demand from moulded carbon bicycles and the whole industry sort of. This post is about the brakes on the bikes.

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.