Walmart wants like $130 for this, I got it for $20 at the local annual block sale.
Just wanted its tyres pumped up and its brakes fiddled with a bit.
Now this is Dan Fixes Coin-Ops, not Dan Fixes Bikes, but I had some fun with those brakes. It uses side-pull caliper brakes on the front and V-brakes on the back.
So I note the back brakes are being a bit finicky in their adjustments and not returning to their neutral positions cleanly, so I do the silly thing and give them a couple drops of oil. It works. Later on I get the manual and find out oh, that's actually what the manual recommends. Then I adjust the handlebars for her and that throws the back brake alignment all to bollocks again so I figure alright, it's good enough, let's let her do some more riding (not really riding, still learning, but we're having fun) and I'll have a better look when she's in bed.
So we put her to bed, I pull these calipers off, and what do I see? Remembering that the manual recommended lubing these things?
Nylon pawl wrapped around a brass bushing with a steel washer underneath.
Aye. They wanted me to put oil on that. 😑
So I give them a damn good scrub and take off all the nasty gunky grease the factory put in there, along with the oil I added, get it all clean and put it together dry and of course now it's smooth as butter, I guess the moral is ignore the manual ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ