{"id":580,"date":"2007-08-07T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journeytomorocco.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2007-08-07T03:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T10:24:00","slug":"brake-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/brake-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Brake hell…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or rather… ‘why I shouldn’t be allowed to fix my own bike’.<\/p>\n

It seems every time I try to fix my bike, do something simple, it always turns out to be a pain in the butt. In this case I was putting new pads in the front callipers ready for September – I didn’t want to be riding the length of France, Spain and Morocco on brand new pads – and I completely screwed the retaining plug for the pad pin… this was the result<\/p>\n

\"Broken<\/a><\/p>\n

Then to add insult to injury I ordered a replacement off ebay from a breakers up north and they sent me this<\/p>\n

\"Unknown<\/a><\/p>\n

If you can tell me what bike this part is for I’d be grateful – because it ‘aint for the CBF! New (correct) part should arrive today – so hopefully I’ll be back on the road tomorrow. <\/p>\n

However, given I plan to do an oil change this weekend – that could be short lived!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or rather… ‘why I shouldn’t be allowed to fix my own bike’. It seems every time I try to fix my bike, do something simple, it always turns out to be a pain in the butt. In this case I was putting new pads in the front callipers ready for September – I didn’t want … Continue reading “Brake hell…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mechanics","category-planning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}