{"id":69354,"date":"2012-12-14T20:49:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=69354"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:43:01","slug":"bandit-1200-fork-oil-change-and-caliper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20121214\/everyday-events\/bandit-1200-fork-oil-change-and-caliper","title":{"rendered":"Bandit 1200 Fork Oil Change and Caliper Piston (Front) Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"decob-3352280673\" class=\"decob- decob-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/advertise\" aria-label=\"ad_sample_1456_180_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png 1456w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-1024x127.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-768x95.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" width=\"812\" height=\"100\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>So <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63689996_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>What was that caliper piston again?<br \/>\nI measured the bolts and pistons \u2605<br \/>\nInspected the seals and <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63689996_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>This &#8220;metal rubber&#8221; brings out wonderful braking performance<br \/>\nIt dissolves in brake fluid too, so it&#8217;s safe \u2605 <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63689996_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The caliper pistons must always stick out equally on both sides\u2014I check and adjust that.<br \/>\nThe caliper center is one thing, but the piston extension makes a huge difference in feel YO <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_63689996_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The fork oil is a bit dark \u2605<br \/>\nAll done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So &nbsp; &nbsp;What was that caliper piston again? I measured the bolts and pistons \u2605 Inspected the seals and &nbsp; &nbsp;This &#8220;metal rubber&#8221; brings out wonderful braking performance It dissolves in brake fluid too, so it&#8217;s safe \u2605 &nbsp; &nbsp;The caliper pistons must always stick out equally on both sides\u2014I check and adjust that. The caliper center is one thing, but the piston extension makes a huge difference in feel YO &nbsp; &nbsp;The fork oil is a bit dark \u2605 All done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[1922,55],"class_list":["post-69354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-bandit","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}