{"id":82176,"date":"2008-05-24T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=82176"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:21","slug":"poor-maintenance-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20080524\/decoboco-cars\/gs1000s-d\/poor-maintenance-episode","title":{"rendered":"Poor Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1451895_55161630_6.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1451895_55161630_7.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/1451895_55161630_8.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>When you press the rear brake, it feels kind of stiff.<br \/>\nAt a red light, when you push the bike forward and backward, it won&#8217;t move.<br \/>\nI forcefully pull the pedal back to release it.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s gotta be the caliper and master cylinder.<br \/>\nAnyway, time to take it apart and check. Looks like the brake fluid turned into a gel and locked up. \u2605<br \/>\nThe rear caliper seal is borrowed from an R1000, so we made do somehow.<br \/>\nThe master cylinder isn&#8217;t 14\u03c6, so we&#8217;ll just clean it and call it good. \u2605<br \/>\nWe replaced the hose with a new one.<br \/>\nAll fixed. Even with indoor storage when you&#8217;re not riding, this kind of thing happens\u2014it&#8217;s annoying.<br \/>\nAnd now the bleeder nipple is stripped too\u2014ugh!<br \/>\nGwash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;When you press the rear brake, it feels kind of stiff. At a red light, when you push the bike forward and backward, it won&#8217;t move. I forcefully pull the pedal back to release it. It&#8217;s gotta be the caliper and master cylinder. Anyway, time to take it apart and check. Looks like the brake fluid turned into a gel and locked up. \u2605 The rear caliper seal is borrowed from an R1000, so we made do somehow. The master cylinder isn&#8217;t 14\u03c6, so we&#8217;ll just clean it and call it good. \u2605 We replaced the hose with a new one. All fixed. Even with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1925],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-82176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gs1000s-d","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82176","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=82176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}