I'm a little confused.
In the UK, Yambits are selling a pattern '72 type caliper, which is no doubt manufactured somewhere in the Far East.
Quality looks good, and their website says that for bikes with twin discs, (like the UK XS650B, and C models), all you have to do is reverse the fixings on one caliper.
Fair enough.
But today I got my hands on an original set of calipers from what I assume was a 650B.
There is a slot machined in for the brake pad tangs.
Machined so it makes the calipers "handed" by my reckoning.
And there's more slots machined in the inner caliper halves.
But they don't align with the outers.
It's occurred to me that someone has swapped around the caliper halves at some point ?
Maybe.
It's been about thirty years since I actually owned a bike with these calipers, my memory has failed me (and I don't think that I ever had to do any work on the brakes)
So have I actually managed to buy a matched pair ?
In the UK, Yambits are selling a pattern '72 type caliper, which is no doubt manufactured somewhere in the Far East.
Quality looks good, and their website says that for bikes with twin discs, (like the UK XS650B, and C models), all you have to do is reverse the fixings on one caliper.
Fair enough.
But today I got my hands on an original set of calipers from what I assume was a 650B.
There is a slot machined in for the brake pad tangs.
Machined so it makes the calipers "handed" by my reckoning.
And there's more slots machined in the inner caliper halves.
But they don't align with the outers.
It's occurred to me that someone has swapped around the caliper halves at some point ?
Maybe.
It's been about thirty years since I actually owned a bike with these calipers, my memory has failed me (and I don't think that I ever had to do any work on the brakes)
So have I actually managed to buy a matched pair ?