Published on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by avesh kadri How Drum Brakes Works What are Drum Brakes, Drum brakes are brakes which works on principle of shoes against rotating surface or Drum. Many of Our Indian bikes have Drum brakes instead of Disc Brakes, why, reason is , More than 50% of indian bikes are 100 - 110cc with top speed of less than 95 kmph, hardly taking a passion or platina you would ever reach 80 kmph...