Originally Posted by
GeraldChan
I heard that in the mid-70's the US Product Safety Commission mandated the changeover and prior to that Americans also used the R lever to work the front brake.
My reason for posting this here is b/c since many C&V'ers are so meticulously "correct" shouldn't all vintage bikes be set-up this way?
They may have mandated a standard, but in my experience, the right lever was almost always usually the rear in the US, even the 50s, 60s.