T i m wrote:

I remember riding
a friend's bicycle which was the only one which I've ever encountered with
the front and rear brake levers the opposite way round. Maybe it was
originally for the LHD market where the back brake is placed so the opposite
arm is free when signalling to turn (left) across traffic.

I'd always imagined the brakes would be the same way round whatever
country you live in? That's certainly the case with moped / motorbike
hand brakes (not sure about the *very* old motorcycles).

Older (but post war) UK motorbikes had the gear lever and rear brake
(both foot operated of course) the other way around from the standard
nowadays. (Now it's gear lever on the left, rear/foot brake on the
right)

There was always speculation that the early Japanese bikes had these
on the 'wrong' side because they had a reversed photograph or some
such to work from when studying the 'bikes of the time.


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Chris Green
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