John, I can not tell why, but I can confirm that there are two styles of 600 calipers. I have two almost identical Koga Miyata (Koga was the european/dutch importer) gents racer models from around 1982, one has the brakes the right way, the other the wrong way. I guess there has been an change in the production of this brakes in general where the direction was changed. My models seem to be of two different years.
Regards
Michael Schmid Oberammergau - where we got lots of snow last night again Germany Tel.: +49 8821 798790 Fax.:+49 8821 798791 mail: schmid@zunterer.com http://www.zunterer.com
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] Im Auftrag von John Wirt Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. März 2008 20:37 An: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Betreff: [CR]Shimano 600 brakes on Miyata
All, This has been bugging me for a while and figured the list must know this one... My wife's 1982 Miyata 912 has the full Shimano 600 "Arabesque" gruppo. The odd thing is that the brake calipers are "backwards"! The cables come in from the left side as you look at them, rather than the right. If one routes the cables using the standard left hand/front brake, the cable bend gets a bit tight on the front brake. Should I find later calipers? Why is this?
john wirt
boise, id
USA