Hello I'm looking at buying a Genesis equilibrium frameset. The new ones have a flat-mount rear dropout, but the fork has a post-mount.
If I were to ever buy hydro discs, surely the flat mount caliper would not fit the post-mount fork?
I know you can adapt post-mount brakes to fit the flat-mount dropout, but cannot see how you would do it the other way round.
Am I being thick? Why only make one of the brakes a flat-mount?
Bobbins isn't it
but in hindsight they must have thought hold on, we cant screw the bolts through the leg of the fork so lets just hide our cock up and make sure none of its compatible with anything else anyway.
fork design has yet to catch up with flat mount - review of new Cannondale caad12 over on road cc read yesterday is the same flat rear PM front....
\bonkers
"The carbon disc fork is a carry-over item from the CAAD10 Disc, complete with a post mount fitting. The rear calliper is fixed to the chainstay using the modern flat mount standard" - [url] http://road.cc/content/review/182996-cannondale-caad12-disc-dura-ace#sthash.ND1OHRO4.dpuf [/url]
So is it a case of 'let's us up this stock of post-mount forks we have lying around'?
Seems like a bit of an afterthought to me, which is a shame as the frameset is nice otherwise
Just means you need post mount callipers with a flat mount to PM rear adaptor.
Yes I understand you can adapt the rear brake, but I don't see the point of speccing two different standards on one bike.
If you bought a flat-mount pair of brakes, you couldn't use them!