Steven L. Sheffield wrote: < I've never seen a brake mounted to the rear of a fork crown, but I HAVE seen people who mounted the rear brake on the inside of the rear triangle. Never have gotten a plausible answer for that one ...>
We had a prototype bike on display in the shop a number of years ago, from Cinelli I think, that had the front brake INSIDE the fork crown, some sort of scissors action. I will look and see if I have a picture of it somewhere. I have mounted brakes in front of the seatstays a few times. One reason is for better pannier clearance. Another might be when you have a brake where the cable comes out the opposite side of normal, like the old Gran Compes. But on the Jack Taylor tandem I had built in 1978, I had a pair of Mafac cantis, a Phil disc in the front, and a sidepull in front of the seatstays, all operated from a pair of Mafac dual levers, both fronts on the left and both rears on the right. That bike would stop on a dime.
And if you will look closely at the pic of the Taylor Trike in my album at
http://photos.yahoo.com/
Bob Freeman
Seattle