Bleeding the front brake: lever distance from the bar

[b1k3rdude]

Thanks for all the suggestions/questions but I found out what was causing the excess lever movement, it was a combination of the 'spring effect' on the brake seals and half worn pads.

• The spring effect as I understand is - a combination of the pads almost touching the discs and the piston seals grabbing/dragging on the sides of the pistons. This results is the pistons were not allowing me to fully compress/pressurise the system, hence the excess lever play -  or some thing like that.
  
• The pads still had enough meat on them 3-4mm, but apparently bandits unlike Fazers can't deal with worm pads that are still within thier wear limit.