Quote Originally Posted by velogirl
Did you switch because you're right-handed?

I've got my brakes switched, but only because of cyclocross (where it's standard to put your rear brake on the left). After my first season of cross, I switched the brakes on my mtn bike too (because I kept messing up and forgetting which was where). I'm just about at the point where I need to swap my road bikes too -- I'm too old to remember all that!
actually I switched them because I came to biking from motorcycles and the front brake on a motorcycle is on the right hand side. I knew about using front brake over back from motorcycle classes and I didn't want to get in the habit of relying on the back brake on my bicycles.

Switching out the brakes is the first thing I do when I get a new bike so I Don't have to try and remember which brake is where. Plus this way I can move from bicycles to motorcycles and back without any problems. It makes borrowing someone elses bike very interesting - and I don't loan my bikes out without warning the loaner first!