{"id":83773,"date":"2007-05-30T20:45:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T11:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=83773"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:06","slug":"operability-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20070530\/everyday-events\/operability-chapter","title":{"rendered":"Operability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_48860194_0.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The bicycle&#8217;s steering is stiff and it won&#8217;t go straight for some reason.<br \/>\nAt first I thought it was because of the block-pattern tires, but that wasn&#8217;t it.<br \/>\nSo I went ahead and disassembled the front end of the bike!<br \/>\nSuper easy\u2606 About 1\/100th the complexity of a motorcycle!<br \/>\nWhat is this\u2014unbelievable!<br \/>\nThe stem bearing isn&#8217;t pressed in; it&#8217;s just fitted, and the stem shaft doesn&#8217;t even have adjustment threads cut into it.<br \/>\nIt looks like you adjust it by tightening the M6 bolt on top&#8230;<br \/>\nLame&#8230;<br \/>\nI disassembled it, washed it, and packed it with Neutech grease!<br \/>\nIt became incredibly smooth and super responsive! Nice\u266a<br \/>\nToday I also did stem bearing and fork OH on a Z750 D1, and it was in pretty rough shape\u2014really dirty, seals coming off,<br \/>\nraces that wouldn&#8217;t come out, that kind of thing!<br \/>\nI bought a pencil rotary tool the other day for deburring engine work and managed to get through it somehow&#8230;<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s improve the operability of rotation and reciprocal motion!<br \/>\nPokidam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The bicycle&#8217;s steering is stiff and it won&#8217;t go straight for some reason. At first I thought it was because of the block-pattern tires, but that wasn&#8217;t it. So I went ahead and disassembled the front end of the bike! Super easy\u2606 About 1\/100th the complexity of a motorcycle! What is this\u2014unbelievable! The stem bearing isn&#8217;t pressed in; it&#8217;s just fitted, and the stem shaft doesn&#8217;t even have adjustment threads cut into it. It looks like you adjust it by tightening the M6 bolt on top&#8230; Lame&#8230; I disassembled it, washed it, and packed it with Neutech grease! It became incredibly smooth and super responsive! Nice\u266a Today I also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83772,"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-83773","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\/83773","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=83773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}