Old 08-04-15 | 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnDThompson
That's actually a fork design flaw, not a problem inherent to disc brakes. If the fork were designed with the caliper in front of the blade rather than behind it, the braking force would push the wheel more firmly into the dropout rather than ejecting it from the dropout.
Is there a good reason they don't do this ??
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