Patent ID: 7055655

Claim:
A bicycle disc brake assembly comprising: a bicycle frame portion having mounting flanges fixedly coupled thereto; a bicycle disc brake caliper having a housing with frame mounting sections fixedly coupled thereto, said housing being configured to form a disc brake rotor slot, said frame mounting sections being removably coupled to said mounting flanges of said frame portion by fasteners; and at least one metal shim mounted between one of said mounting flanges and a corresponding one of said frame mounting sections on a corresponding one of said fasteners to selectively space said disc brake rotor slot of said bicycle disc brake caliper a predetermined distance from said bicycle frame portion, said at least one shim including a shim portion and a handle portion extending outwardly from said shim portion, said shim portion having a first shim section with a first curved edge surface and a second shim section with a second curved edge surface, said first and second curved edge surfaces being concaved in opposite directions relative to each other to form a substantially C-shaped edge surface defining a fastener opening with a predetermined maximum width between said first and second curved edge surfaces and with one of said fasteners selectively received therein, said first curved edge surface of said first shim section having a first free end and said second curved edge surface of said second shim section having a second free end spaced from said first free end to form an open end of said fastener opening between said first and second shim sections with said open end of said fastener opening having a predetermined minimum width that is smaller than said predetermined maximum width, said fastener including a head and a shaft that has a transverse dimension smaller than a transverse width of the head and larger than said predetermined minimum width between said first and second free ends of said shim portion, said shim portion having a predetermined thickness in an axial direction of said fastener opening to space said disc brake rotor slot of said bicycle disc brake caliper said predetermined distance from said bicycle frame portion, each of said shim sections having a maximum transverse width that is smaller than said maximum predetermined width of said fastener opening as measured in a direction parallel to said predetermined minimum width of said open end of said fastener opening.