{"id":2690,"date":"2006-07-31T21:41:26","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T01:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/31\/king-ov-shim\/"},"modified":"2006-07-31T21:41:26","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T01:41:26","slug":"king-ov-shim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/31\/king-ov-shim\/","title":{"rendered":"king ov shim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To round out the Dawes Super Galaxy, I got a pair of used Sun Tour Superbe non-aero brake levers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikespecialties.com\/\">Bicycle Specialties<\/a>. Wouldn&#8217;t you know it though, but one of them was for thicker (Cinelli?) bars than the narrow GB Randonneurs that are on my bike.<br \/>\nArmed with a sharp knife, a straight edge, and an empty can of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irn-bru.co.uk\/\">Irn Bru<\/a>, I cut myself some shim stock to fill out the gap. The lever has a little lateral play, but it&#8217;s not moving up or down any. I am the king ov shim!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To round out the Dawes Super Galaxy, I got a pair of used Sun Tour Superbe non-aero brake levers from Bicycle Specialties. Wouldn&#8217;t you know it though, but one of them was for thicker (Cinelli?) bars than the narrow GB Randonneurs that are on my bike. Armed with a sharp knife, a straight edge, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[78,77,490,577,538,317,1269,217],"class_list":["post-2690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-stuff","tag-bicycle","tag-bike","tag-dawes","tag-lax","tag-stock","tag-superbe","tag-ugh","tag-uk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Ho","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}