technical query: Shimano discs

[Martin]

Are the levers for 555 hydro discs reversible?. Saw a good offer on a front disc as the lever was
LHS continental (and me) style. Will the rear one also have to go on the left or can it be turned
upside down without looking daft? any help please.

[Eatmorepies]

"martin" <Martin.Malins@st-marys.nhs.uk> wrote in message
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> Are the levers for 555 hydro discs reversible?. Saw a good offer on a front disc as the lever was
> LHS continental (and me) style. Will the rear one also have to go on the left or can it be turned
> upside down without looking daft? any help please.

Surely the levers can go either side. You may need to change the length of the pipe though.

John

[Martin]

"Eatmorepies" <wigglestopPLUG@lineone.net> wrote in message
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> "martin" <Martin.Malins@st-marys.nhs.uk> wrote in message
> news:6398dc76.0307142338.2c260a9e@posting.google.com...
> > Are the levers for 555 hydro discs reversible?. Saw a good offer on a front disc as the lever
> > was LHS continental (and me) style. Will the rear one also have to go on the left or can it be
> > turned upside down without looking daft? any help please.
>
> Surely the levers can go either side. You may need to change the length of the pipe though.
>
Thanks That's what's strange, why are they selling a front set cheap coz of the LHS lever? unless
the pipe is now too short to go to the rhs of the bars from the caliper; it's as if they are non
reversible. I think pipe length is easy to change on that model as they are touted as _cuttable_. I
have emailed the shop with my concerns so hopefully they won't send me a duff pair.

[Rupert Smith]

if these are anything like my shimano 525 hydro disk brakes then the reservior for the brake fluid
needs to be on top of the lever and turning upside down probably wouldn't work unless the reservoir
was very full. Would also make it more difficult to service/bleed the system.

Rupert

"martin" <Martin.Malins@st-marys.nhs.uk> wrote in message
news:6398dc76.0307142338.2c260a9e@posting.google.com...
> Are the levers for 555 hydro discs reversible?. Saw a good offer on a front disc as the lever was
> LHS continental (and me) style. Will the rear one also have to go on the left or can it be turned
> upside down without looking daft? any help please.

[Martin]

"Eatmorepies" <wigglestopPLUG@lineone.net> wrote in message
news:<bf1m7p$9omt4$1@ID-109188.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> "martin" <Martin.Malins@st-marys.nhs.uk> wrote in message
> news:6398dc76.0307142338.2c260a9e@posting.google.com...
> > Are the levers for 555 hydro discs reversible?. Saw a good offer on a front disc as the lever
> > was LHS continental (and me) style. Will the rear one also have to go on the left or can it be
> > turned upside down without looking daft? any help please.
>
> Surely the levers can go either side. You may need to change the length of the pipe though.

they've just said that they are one sided. Still going to order the front one (£49) and see if
can pick up a rear one with a rhs lever (or buy a longer hose) or go to France where they would
be reversed. What is it with us Brits: wrong side of the road/handlebars/gear change on
motorbikes etc etc?

[Dave Larrington]

martin wrote:

> What is it with us Brits: wrong side of the road/handlebars/gear change on motorbikes etc etc?

Stuff and nonsense, man, it's they who are out of step with right-thinking BRITONS. I blame
Napoleon, which is a fairly safe bet, coz I'm bigger than him. Plus he's dead.

Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
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[Ambrose Nankive]

In news:6398dc76.0307160335.737a9452@posting.google.com, martin
<Martin.Malins@st-marys.nhs.uk> typed:
> "Eatmorepies" <wigglestopPLUG@lineone.net> wrote in message
> news:<bf1m7p$9omt4$1@ID-109188.news.uni-berlin.de>...
>> "martin" <Martin.Malins@st-marys.nhs.uk> wrote in message
>> news:6398dc76.0307142338.2c260a9e@posting.google.com...
>>> Are the levers for 555 hydro discs reversible?. Saw a good offer on a front disc as the lever
>>> was LHS continental (and me) style. Will the rear one also have to go on the left or can it be
>>> turned upside down without looking daft? any help please.
>>
>> Surely the levers can go either side. You may need to change the length of the pipe though.
>
> they've just said that they are one sided. Still going to order the front one (£49) and see if can
> pick up a rear one with a rhs lever (or buy a longer hose) or go to France where they would be
> reversed. What is it with us Brits: wrong side of the road/handlebars/gear change on motorbikes
> etc etc?

We're not as outnumbered as you might think. We've got India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan and plenty
of countries less populous that ourselves for company.

However, it does seem to be popular wisdom that you keep to the right on off-road paths, much to my
annoyance. I normally get round it by going further to the left than the oncoming person is to the
right, which isn't normally a problem thanks to my |\/|/-\|) 1337 bike handling skillz. That is to
say, the person going to the right may be a little less experienced than myself, and won't go so
near the edge of the path, rather preferring to pass me by going to their left. Of course, you need
some distance between the bikes to let this happen without being intimidating.

A

[Martin]

"Rupert Smith" <NOSPAMSmith_Rupert@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:<bf32ou$2qm$1@vins1.reading.ac.uk>...
> if these are anything like my shimano 525 hydro disk brakes then the reservior for the brake fluid
> needs to be on top of the lever and turning upside down probably wouldn't work unless the
> reservoir was very full. Would also make it more difficult to service/bleed the system.
>

Absolutely right: moral is look before you click. It would look completely stoopid in the right, so
have returned it. Will now have a continent wide hunt for a rhs rear set. And also you can't just
get a front one and put a longer hose on; the calliper mountings are not the same; the rear one is
longer. In the blurb I noticed you can get adpators so you can clip the pipe to the cable guides on
the frame; anyone know who stcoks these?