{"id":1326,"date":"2018-05-25T14:23:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T18:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2018-05-28T18:14:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T22:14:28","slug":"band-brakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/25\/band-brakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Band brakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A band brake, common in Japan and occasionally seen in the USA, is an inside-out drum brake. Instead of brake shoes which press outward against the inside of a brake drum, a band brake has a flexible band which wraps around the outside of the drum. A band brake is easy to install and adjust, and we show how. While a\u00a0band brake can be very effective for flatland cycling, it is not good for downhills and should never be used on a front wheel. Read why in <a href=\"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/band-brakes.html\">our new article.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1327\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1327\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1327\" src=\"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bicycl-band-brake-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"a bicycle band brake\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bicycl-band-brake-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bicycl-band-brake-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bicycl-band-brake.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a bicycle band brake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A band brake, common in Japan and occasionally seen in the USA, is an inside-out drum brake. Instead of brake shoes which press outward against the inside of a brake drum, a band brake has a flexible band which wraps around the outside of the drum. A band brake is easy to install and adjust, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/25\/band-brakes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Band brakes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[956,957,5,53,47,959,958,135,59,40,41,43,42,177],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-pages","tag-band","tag-band-brake","tag-bicycle","tag-brake","tag-cable","tag-capstan","tag-capstan-effect","tag-coaster-brake","tag-shelbroco","tag-sheldon","tag-sheldon-brown","tag-sheldonbrown","tag-sheldonbrown-com","tag-wheel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}