{"id":460,"date":"2018-11-07T11:05:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2018-11-07T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T16:05:13","slug":"460","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Slowly closing in on the fun stuff. The brake assemblies all use plastic\/nylon at the pivots! Well, they&#39;ve lasted 30+ years. Sil-glyde for you.<br><br>I&#39;ve read suggestions to grease friction shifters and suggestions to leave them dry. There&#39;s more nylon here (used as crush washers to add friction), though the lever faces directly contact metal washers on both sides. A bit of sil-glyde on those faces, and we&#39;ll see how it goes.<br><br>I planned to use marine grease for all bearings (metal on metal), but the bottom bracket has a plastic sleeve. I&#39;ve yet to personally experience marine grease causing problems with plastics or rubber (after using it in a low-end coil suspension fork), but I&#39;ll probably err on the side of caution and use silicon grease here too.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1652.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1652-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"130\" data-link=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?attachment_id=130\" class=\"wp-image-130\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/li>\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1654.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1654-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"131\" data-link=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?attachment_id=131\" class=\"wp-image-131\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/li>\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1641.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1641-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"128\" data-link=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?attachment_id=128\" class=\"wp-image-128\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly closing in on the fun stuff. The brake assemblies all use plastic\/nylon at the pivots! Well, they&#39;ve lasted 30+ years. Sil-glyde for you. I&#39;ve read suggestions to grease friction shifters and suggestions to leave them dry. There&#39;s more nylon here (used as crush washers to add friction), though the lever faces directly contact metal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?p=460\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}