{"id":305,"date":"2012-06-28T20:52:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T10:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=305"},"modified":"2012-07-08T20:54:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T10:54:51","slug":"too-much-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Too much choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_307\" style=\"width: 268px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/darracq-001a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-307\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-307\" title=\"Darracq lever\" src=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/darracq-001a-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"Darracq brake lever\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/darracq-001a-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/darracq-001a-882x1024.jpg 882w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/darracq-001a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top hole or Bottom hole that is the question<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fred Deusenberg originated hydraulic brakes on his 1914 racing cars, so says Wikipedia. Unfortunately Louis Coatalen had other things on his mind so stuck with mechanical brakes in 1925.\u00a0 He also had so little faith in those new fangled front brakes that they are smaller the rears.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the picture I have choices, this is the link from the brake pedal to a relay lever.\u00a0 Under hard braking the pedal would hit the floor so I had to pick the top hole giving me less leverage.\u00a0 There is another like this with 3 choices for the rear brakes, given that the rear brakes are 100mm larger should they be given more or less leverage?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Deusenberg originated hydraulic brakes on his 1914 racing cars, so says Wikipedia. Unfortunately Louis Coatalen had other things on his mind so stuck with mechanical brakes in 1925.\u00a0 He also had so little faith in those new fangled front &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=305\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darracq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}