{"id":203,"date":"2003-11-24T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-24T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/?p=203"},"modified":"2010-04-08T16:31:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T20:31:48","slug":"sunday-stuff-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a good part of the day mounting the rear wheel from the tandem onto the Linear.  This allows me to use the tandem&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precisiontandems.com\/arai.htm\" target=\"_blank\">hub brake<\/a> as the Linear&#8217;s rear brake, so I was able to get rid of the side-pull cantilever brakes.  Back in &#8217;96 I modified the Linear by cutting about 18&#8243; off the beam, to make the bike shorter. This brought the bottom of the seat very close to the rear brakes. Unfortunately, when I would sit on the seat, my weight pressed against the brake cable sheath, causing the rear brake to pivot and press against the rim.  So now I won&#8217;t have that problem anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Another advantage of the new wheel is it comes with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeman.com\/miva\/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&amp;Product_Code=FW0952&amp;Category_Code=COMPCASS8MTN\" target=\"_blank\">Shimano Deore XTR 8 speed cassette<\/a> &#8211; a major upgrade from the decades-old 6 speed freewheel on the other wheel.<\/p>\n<p>I also put a new Primo 1 1\/8&#8243; tire on the wheel &#8211; it has a nifty reflective strip!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"11240001.JPG\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/><font size=\"1\">The Aerospoke with hub brake<\/font><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"11240002.JPG\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/><font size=\"1\">Close-up of the hub brake &#8211; the brake cable is pulled through the blue sheath, <br \/>causing the arm at the bottom to pull upwards, engaging the brake pads in the drum.<br \/>(The rectangular aluminum component mounted next to the quick release is my custom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burley.com\/products\/trailers\/default.aspx?p=d'Lite&amp;i=0\" target=\"_blank\">Burley trailer<\/a> hitch.)<\/font><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"11240004.JPG\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/><font size=\"1\">Close-up of the hub brake from the inside of the &#8220;rear triangle&#8221;<\/font><\/div>\n<p>It did, however, add about 2 pounds to the bike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a good part of the day mounting the rear wheel from the tandem onto the Linear. This allows me to use the tandem&#8217;s hub brake as the Linear&#8217;s rear brake, so I was able to get rid of the side-pull cantilever brakes. Back in &#8217;96 I modified the Linear by cutting about 18&#8243; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wymore.net\/benandtricia\/blog\/ben3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}