An opposed piston disc brake caliper has a caliper housing arranged for
mounting brake shoes on each of opposite sides of a rotor. The rotor in
use is disposed between the brake shoes with each brake shoe having a
backing plate and a friction lining applied to the backing plate. The
caliper housing has side walls extending generally in a plane parallel to
a plane of the rotor and on opposite sides of the plane of the rotor
which accommodate a piston. The caliper housing has mounting members for
engagement with each of the side edges of each backing plate between the
radially inner edge and the radially outer edge of the friction lining.
The engagement is such as to substantially limit movement of each brake
shoe other than in a direction toward or away from the rotor with at
least one of the mounting members being removable from the caliper
housing to facilitate removal of the brake shoe from the caliper housing.