I was thinking the other day about putting a rear brake on the bar ... Has anyone done this ???

 

lot's of people prefer their rear brake lever over a pedal, www.fast50s.com sells a 'kit' to do the conversion for $90, and i know a few other manufacturers do as well.
B

 

works nicely for whillys...also lends an advantage when racing cuz you can glide the rear brake when take right handers to settle the rear in....

Teach

 

do you know with the fast 50 rear hand break kit if you still have the foot break too?

or is it once you install the hand break you loose you foot break?

 

you lose the rear foot brake. I made my own that kept the rear lever for $15, but sold it because I needed the space for a clutch lever.

 

Crap.

Do you any place out there that does make one where you dont loose the rear foot brake lever. I saw one on some guys that used a rear disk break adaped frim a mt bike, but i cant find info on it anywhere.

 

After a little searching i answered my own question.

The SANO Rear Disk Brake Hub Kit. Not cheap, but bad ***.


http://www.twobros.com/cgi-bin/shopp...n&key=010-6-34

 

my friend has that and that sucker grabs

 

thats the ugliest fifty i've ever seen.. no offense to the owner, just not my style! it looks like Frankenfifty!

 

Damm that thing looks like it sits high as FU(K.

anyhow. do you know if it is possible to hook both the rear and the front brake lever up to that thing?

 

I made one heres what you need

1 perch and lever - i used one off a quad
1 brake cable - you can get at any BMX shop i used oddesy
1 metal hose clamp - get at a hardware store
2 cable crimps - hardware store

then just rig it up. the hose clamp, goes on the swing arm no where else, i found out that if you put it anywhere else, when you sit down and compress your shock it will cause slack in the cable

 

once you run the cable along the frame use plastic zip tie to hold it to the frame more towards the center where theres a gap in the plastics on the side. you may need to strip some of the plastic off the end of the brake cable to get some more of the metal cable to show. loop it around and then clmap it. it took me a lil to get it right but you will get it make sure you clamp the hose clamp down of you won't be able to see if its working or not.

 

make adj on the length of the cable then make a loop with the cable clamps, loop it around the adjustment nut in the back and then mess around with it

 

done

 

hope these help, if you have any questions fell free to pm me

 

DUDE!! thank you so much for your post! thats AWESOME!..

i was wondering how this was done.. we thank you!

 

WOW SIX SIX SIX that is the most informative how to post I've seen on the fiddy forum thanks

 

Yeah i did mine today ill show some pics later... so far it works great but i need a bigger handle this guy gave my this little one.. oh well i spent about 15.00 bucks in all...

 

Honestly, how is it? Does it grab like the foot or does it just "ease" the brake or slow it down a bit. Great post BTW

 

its nothing like the foot but its enuff to slow ya down in turn or bring ya down from a wheelie so ya don't loop. it gets a little tricky putting it all together but its worth it in my opinion. thanks for the kind words guys