{"id":80799,"date":"2008-12-09T22:39:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T13:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=80799"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:11","slug":"sportster-1200-caliper-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20081209\/decoboco-cars\/sportster-d\/sportster-1200-caliper-support","title":{"rendered":"Sportster 1200 Caliper Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"decob-1940870052\" 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>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1508794_57648807_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1508794_57648807_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1508794_57648807_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>It came with a Brembo Racing caliper already installed\u2026<br \/>\nI gave the brakes a decent test and\u2026 they don&#8217;t work well. They&#8217;re heavy too.<br \/>\nThe stroke gets jerky around the middle\u2026<br \/>\nI figured that&#8217;s just how Harleys are, but when I looked at the support\u2026<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s so thin! What is this?<br \/>\nI measured it and the fork-side wall thickness is only 7.5 mm.<br \/>\nThat can&#8217;t be right. It might break eventually, so I&#8217;m making a new one.<br \/>\nVersion 1 failed spectacularly because I measured carelessly.<br \/>\nVersion 2, I got serious and made it 25 mm thick, and changed the mounting method too!<br \/>\nAll told, I spent nearly four hours on this\u2026<br \/>\nNow I just need to deburr it and head home.<br \/>\nPokidam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;It came with a Brembo Racing caliper already installed\u2026 I gave the brakes a decent test and\u2026 they don&#8217;t work well. They&#8217;re heavy too. The stroke gets jerky around the middle\u2026 I figured that&#8217;s just how Harleys are, but when I looked at the support\u2026 It&#8217;s so thin! What is this? I measured it and the fork-side wall thickness is only 7.5 mm. That can&#8217;t be right. It might break eventually, so I&#8217;m making a new one. Version 1 failed spectacularly because I measured carelessly. Version 2, I got serious and made it 25 mm thick, and changed the mounting method too! All told, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[117,55],"class_list":["post-80799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sportster-d","tag-harley-davidson","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80799","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=80799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}