Search the Community
Showing results for tags 'bleeds'.
Found 4 results
-
If I set it on medium front and back it bleeds out overnight. What is considered normal for these bikes? -
So, Tom was riding home on a back windy road, at 10pm Monday night. A stray cow was in the road, black angus, and Tom didn't even see it to brake. He spent the night in the ICU (concussion, small bleeds in the brain) but the cow didn't survive at all. Tom is much better, bleeds stopped and he's been sitting watching baseball and playing videos games so the brain doesn't seem to be hurting. Sore, but only take Tylenol. The front forks on the Venture are bent toward the rear, so we are going to part it out. The front faring is destroyed but all pieces from the front of the seat down are good. He's debating on riding again or not. I'm trying to push him to keep riding. He enjoys it, good fuel mileage and I was starting to enjoy riding with him. Stupid cow. . .
-
One of my projects this winter was to do a complete rebuild of the brakes - new rotors, rebuilt master cylinders, ss lines, rebuilt calipers (thanks Skydoc!). I know the brake bleeding is a pain but I have managed to get the rear/front left air-free after at least a dozen bleeds! I now have good pedal pressure. The easy one, the front rt however, is driving me crazy - no matter what I do, I cannot get any lever pressure. I rebuilt the master cylinder and even disassembled it twice to make sure I installed the rubber cups with the large diameter going into the bore first. After many brake bleeds, there are no more bubbles but still the lever has zero resistance. I must be missing some thing obvious - any hints out there? Thanks!
-
After I got bike running, now the rear shock bleeds off over a 24 hr. period. I went thru almost the same thing before and ended up buying the compressor because I couldn't find any air leaks due to the small volume or air involved. Any ideas on how to find the air leak with such a small amount of air?? Don H.
