{"id":47,"date":"2012-10-02T01:24:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T01:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/?p=47"},"modified":"2012-10-06T01:06:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T01:06:16","slug":"novara-trionfo-partially-refurbished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/2012\/10\/novara-trionfo-partially-refurbished\/","title":{"rendered":"Novara Trionfo, Partially Refurbished"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got my bike back from the shop, and I’m thrilled to finally ride it. After a hectic evening spent installing the new tires (which I did myself in order to save $20), it was too dark to ride it anywhere. So I had to wait until the next day. Sandra and I rode to brunch at Fiddlehead, about a mile away, mostly uphill. During this time I learned that the brakes really needed to be tuned, because I barely had enough hand strength to stop the bike on the steep downhills.<\/p>\n

Today I cleaned of all the crud on the rims using aluminum foil and a bit of vinegar. I also bought some new brake pads. The bikes stops much better now. But the brake pads still aren’t quite the right size, and I can’t adjust them to be closer to the rims. Oh well. Looks like a nice little project for tomorrow. <\/p>\n

Here are some photos of the bike in its almost-current state.<\/p>\n

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Notice the new handlebars and super-long stem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Some crud on the brake calipers and pads<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Some crud on the shift levers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I got my bike back from the shop, and I’m thrilled to finally ride it. After a hectic evening spent installing the new tires (which I did myself in order to save $20), it was too dark to ride it anywhere. So I had to wait until the next day. Sandra and I rode to… Continue reading Novara Trionfo, Partially Refurbished<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bikes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomida.com\/play\/stuff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}