{"id":83266,"date":"2007-10-09T13:06:29","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T04:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=83266"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:03","slug":"replace-rather-than-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20071009\/everyday-events\/replace-rather-than-repair","title":{"rendered":"Replace Rather Than Repair \u2605"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_51458432_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_51458432_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>A lightweight caliper I introduced way back! It&#8217;s from an R1000.<br \/>\nOf course the man&#8217;s bike has one too, but this one has an iron piston \u2605<br \/>\nOn the R1000 it&#8217;s aluminum.<br \/>\nThe piston operates smoothly, and with just one pad pin it works great.<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;d recommend drilling a hole in the pad pin to prevent it from falling out \u2605<br \/>\nWith some parts, replacing them new with a higher-grade version performs better than doing an overhaul,<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s sometimes easier on the wallet too, so use your head and weigh your options!<br \/>\nPokidam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;A lightweight caliper I introduced way back! It&#8217;s from an R1000. Of course the man&#8217;s bike has one too, but this one has an iron piston \u2605 On the R1000 it&#8217;s aluminum. The piston operates smoothly, and with just one pad pin it works great. But I&#8217;d recommend drilling a hole in the pad pin to prevent it from falling out \u2605 With some parts, replacing them new with a higher-grade version performs better than doing an overhaul, and it&#8217;s sometimes easier on the wallet too, so use your head and weigh your options! Pokidam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83265,"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-83266","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\/83266","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=83266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}