Rain and gales lash the southwest UK and running in the new bike is on hold. Nevertheless I can't stay away from it and so have been tinkering about getting more familiar with what goes where and does what. I noticed while riding at the weekend that the rear brake was virtually useless, and assumed this was simply the nature of these old drum brakes. But hard pressure on the pedal while on the centre stand met with initial resistance, then it went way down low and stayed there. I then realized the adjuster at the end of the rod was wound way back near the end of the rod, so I adjusted it back until there was actual braking with light pressure - about an inch of pedal movement. But to achieve this, the adjuster is now wound pretty much all the way to the inner end of the threads on the rod. There may be room for a bit more ongoing adjustment, but not very much. Is this right on a new machine? I'd have expected it to be somewhere around the middle.