{"id":981,"date":"2017-11-18T16:02:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T22:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2018-03-18T16:36:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T21:36:31","slug":"new-bike-project-hiccups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"New bike project hiccup #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I removed the brake calipers from the CAAD8 frame, but cannot mount them on the Merckx frame.\u00a0 The reason?\u00a0 The recessed nut used to attach the rear caliper isn&#8217;t long enough for the thicker brake bridge on the carbon frame.\u00a0 The one for the front caliper might work OK, but the rear one isn&#8217;t even close.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve ordered a couple of longer ones, so once they arrive I should be able to mount both brake calipers and then continue with the project.<\/p>\n<p>I can turn the length down on the lathe if they&#8217;re too long, but hopefully they&#8217;ll just work out OK.\u00a0 Riiiightt&#8230;\u00a0 That always works for me.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The recessed nut for the rear caliper was about 4mm too long. \u00a0Once that extra was removed, the calipers are now both installed and torqued.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s always something you hadn&#8217;t considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I removed the brake calipers from the CAAD8 frame, but cannot mount them on the Merckx frame.\u00a0 The reason?\u00a0 The recessed nut used to attach the rear caliper isn&#8217;t long enough for the thicker brake bridge on the carbon frame.\u00a0 The one for the front caliper might work OK, but the rear one isn&#8217;t even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/?p=981\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New bike project hiccup #2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling","category-eddy-merckx-lxm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalemorin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}