{"id":81289,"date":"2008-10-17T19:29:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T10:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=81289"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:14","slug":"old-bikes-heavy-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20081017\/everyday-events\/old-bikes-heavy-episode","title":{"rendered":"Old Bikes = Heavy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_57005128_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Extremely heavy&#8230; Lawson<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think old necessarily means heavy.<br \/>\nA properly maintained bike glides smoothly and doesn&#8217;t feel heavy at all \u2605<br \/>\nIf it moves smoothly, it feels light, so for now let&#8217;s do some Deco-mainte and work on the brakes&#8230;<br \/>\nThese are newer calipers.<br \/>\nBut the pistons won&#8217;t move at all, they won&#8217;t turn, and I can&#8217;t push them back by hand&#8230;<br \/>\nFor now I got them back in with a piston pusher.<br \/>\nThis is going to drag.<br \/>\nLooks like there&#8217;s more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Extremely heavy&#8230; Lawson I don&#8217;t think old necessarily means heavy. A properly maintained bike glides smoothly and doesn&#8217;t feel heavy at all \u2605 If it moves smoothly, it feels light, so for now let&#8217;s do some Deco-mainte and work on the brakes&#8230; These are newer calipers. But the pistons won&#8217;t move at all, they won&#8217;t turn, and I can&#8217;t push them back by hand&#8230; For now I got them back in with a piston pusher. This is going to drag. Looks like there&#8217;s more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-81289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81289","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=81289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}