(08-07-20, 08:54 AM)Gnasher link Wrote: - What I find very puzzling, is you went somewhere else and they did they exactly the same. It's a matter for you mate but something is very wrong here, one getting it wrong but two? Chances are there's something else at fault here. I would in all seriousness suggest you get your system properly inspected either you've been extremely unlucky or there's another issue,
- spongy brakes will not correct themselves and will only get worse over time, depending on how you ride and the way ABS works, it can speed up the process.
- What you've not said is, were they spongy before the bike went in for whatever it went in for, service I assume. Or did they came out spongy after they'd worked on it? Brake bleeding/fluid change isn't a annual task just inspection, on a GSF it's replace every 24mths, is the fluid past 24mths?
- Personally if that was my bike it would have gone back within minutes of riding the bike and I'd have insisted they were re-bled, as the bike was given back to you in an unsafe manner.
- Different bikes, different shops and a few years apart.
- Agreed, hence using the cable-tie method.
- On the 1200 no, its was a complete service of the calipers. And on the 1250 its braided hose kit front and back. So in both instances the calipers would have been removed etc.
- The brakes in both instances were save enough to ride home, as in I was getting enough lever travel and braking power/perf.
I thought I mentioned I got a reduction in my bill each time, said amount was roughly the labour on the brake bleeding. So like Dudeofrude, its a how valuable is my time versus how much hassle do I want to deal with. It was easier for me to ride home, do the CT method overnight, during the next day, then overnight again and bobs yer uncle. The 1250 only took a single overnight application of the CT method, I assume due to it having braided hoses.
