Transmission assembly including brake

A motorcycle transmission assembly comprising:

• a transmission housing having a hollow interior;
• a main shaft rotatably mounted in the hollow interior of the transmission housing, said main shaft having a plurality of main shaft gears mounted thereon and an input operatively connectable to a motor of the motorcycle;
• a hollow stub shaft joined to one main shaft gear of said plurality of main shaft gears;
• a counter shaft extending parallel to the main shaft rotatably mounted in the hollow interior of the transmission housing, said counter shaft having a plurality of counter shaft gears mounted thereon, each of said plurality of counter shaft gears being selectively meshable with the main shaft gears to change a speed ratio of the transmission;
• an output operatively connected to a predetermined gear of said plurality of counter shaft gears;
• a brake rotor mounted on the hollow stub shaft in a position between the input and the one main shaft gear to which the brake rotor is mounted, said brake rotor having opposite faces operatively connected to the predetermined gear of said plurality of counter shaft gears via at least one other gear selected from the group consisting of the plurality of main shaft gears and the plurality of counter shaft gears;
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• a brake caliper fixedly mounted with respect to the transmission housing and including opposing brake pads, each of said brake pads being positioned on a corresponding one of said brake rotor faces, the brake pads being selectively moveable between a running position in which the pads are spaced from the rotor faces and a braking position in which the pads engage the rotor faces to resist rotation of the output by transmitting braking torque through the predetermined gear of said plurality of counter shaft gears via said at least one other gear.