Problem with front-mounted disk caliper

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:43:10 -0600, Ben C <[email hidden]> may

have said:

While riding today, watching my perfectly true front wheel go round and
round and pondering the issues of our time, it occurred to me that a
disk caliper mounted in front of the fork would spit red-hot brake dust,
splinters of disk and other grit straight into the rider's left eye.

Actually, no. If this were a real hazard (which it is not), it would
be reduced by forward mounting, since the vector of debris launched by
a caliper in that area would be almost entirely forward, with little
or no upward component. The *currently common* arrangement would
theoretically be more likely to have such a result, but the lack of
even an anecdotally reported event is adequate proof that the hazard
is nonexistent.

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Werehatrack said:

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:43:10 -0600, Ben C <[email hidden]> may

have said:

While riding today, watching my perfectly true front wheel go round and
round and pondering the issues of our time, it occurred to me that a
disk caliper mounted in front of the fork would spit red-hot brake dust,
splinters of disk and other grit straight into the rider's left eye.

Actually, no. If this were a real hazard (which it is not), it would
be reduced by forward mounting, since the vector of debris launched by
a caliper in that area would be almost entirely forward, with little
or no upward component. The *currently common* arrangement would
theoretically be more likely to have such a result, but the lack of
even an anecdotally reported event is adequate proof that the hazard
is nonexistent.

You're right, this just occurred to me too. Damn. Wrong again.

Anything coming off the disk is going to be spun off in the direction
the disk is moving.