The Millets Mystery Bike

[Trillian]

yeh, i've straightened and fixed bikes for the kids on my mum's road many times including a set of forks the wrong way round.

 

[Andy in Sig]

There was a recumbent made once which deliberately had the forks on backwards. Apparently it worked quite well.

 

[Keith Oates]

Perhaps that's where the 'bent' name came from!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[simonali]

My Pace forks have the brakes fitted like that!

Apparently it was a design feature to make the front brake as powerful as the back one.

 

[gavintc]

My Pace forks have the brakes fitted like that!

Apparently it was a design feature to make the front brake as powerful as the back one.

It would make some sense putting the brakes behind the fork on TT bikes to improve aerodynamics.

 

[simonali]

With cantis, the rotation of the wheel has the effect of pushing the mounting studs outward on a front mounted brake, but this effect is reversed on the back brake hence the Pace design.