Speed Bleeders

[kyrano]

Hi, Does anyone know the pitch/thread for a compete set of Speed Bleeders brake/clutch for a 2011 GSA, also the best place to buy them from too

 

[m1keyp]

The speed bleeder website

http://www.speedbleeder.com/Motorcycle Sizes.htm

Ordered my Ducati ones from the states, no issues and way cheaper

 

[kyrano]

Hi, Thanks for the link, I have just emailed them

 

[Bendy toy]

I use a 100ml syringe on the bleed nipple. Even after I disconnected the ABS module bleeding was dead easy.

 

[Deleted account 190920002]

Bendy my daughters a medic and she says she can get me an irrigation? syringe, is this what you used. I've now got from a friend his old but new to me gs 1200 2009 vintage. I've done all the 24.000 service except brake fluid change. I wonder why I was quoted £380 for the service from a BM Main dealer for what took me two and a half hours to do and sixty quid for consumables.

 

[kyrano]

Well it is a BMW.... £60 and a few hours is well worth it, and you know you haver done it too I have been servicing my 2011 since the warranty had ended as the prices from BMW are way too expensive, just need a few tools a GS911 and a few hours of your time....sorted

 

[Deleted account 190920002]

Yep kyrano, sometime I think folk get overawed with the so called complexities, which aren't at all. Just take your time and of course have some savvy.

 

[snelly]

Bendy my daughters a medic and she says she can get me an irrigation? syringe, is this what you used. I've now got from a friend his old but new to me gs 1200 2009 vintage. I've done all the 24.000 service except brake fluid change. I wonder why I was quoted £380 for the service from a BM Main dealer for what took me two and a half hours to do and sixty quid for consumables.

Hope the £380 does'nt seem cheap the first time you hit the brakes in anger. But i do know where your coming from.

 

[Deleted account 190920002]

Thanks for the warning snelly my friend but after 42 years on bikes I think I'll cope. My early ones didn't have much in the way of brakes at all. Thinking back to one incident a group of us got stopped for speeding ( on c15's and tiger cubs) he had to be joking. The local cop asked one rather droll character how he could tell his speed as he had no speedo, he replied truthfully " I can tell by the wund freend".Well I think I've come a long way from those days.

 

[Bendy toy]

I used a 100ml hydroponics syringe via eBay with some silicone rubber hose sold for aquariums. I also have some larger bore neoprene hose (windscreen washer stuff) for where the silicone hose wont suit the job. I also tie the brake lever back to the handlebar and leave overnight to allow fine bubbles to escape.

At least with brakes its easy to know if there is air in the system. Getting that air out is another matter.

The cable operated SLS front brake on my Triton (1959 Dominator frame) used a calendar to measure stopping times. Compared to that, a new fangled Kawasaki hydraulic disc with wooden feel and no work in the wet was a revelation.

 

[Mr Bean]

Bendy my daughters a medic and she says she can get me an irrigation? syringe, is this what you used. I've now got from a friend his old but new to me gs 1200 2009 vintage. I've done all the 24.000 service except brake fluid change. I wonder why I was quoted £380 for the service from a BM Main dealer for what took me two and a half hours to do and sixty quid for consumables.

Irrigation syringes usually have a larger taper, but as long as you can find suitable tubing it will be fine - ask her to get you a length of oxygen bubble tubing (she will know what this is) that has at least two bubbles in it all will be fine.

I've been using this set up for years.

 

[Deleted account 190920002]

Mr B and Bendy it's pouring with rain up here so will do the necessary tomorrow on the brake fluids with your ideas. Yes the syringe will be great for the next FD oil change as well, the one Kath got me holds 60 ml so three of those for the FD. Plus if I get constipated it might even stand in for an enema! Well maybe not.

 

[kyrano]

Ordered the speedbleeders $36 inc UPS shipping for the F & R brakes & Clutch

 

[adventuredon]

Having never done brake bleeding etc before, after asking on here I went for this kit fromHalfords. So easy, peasy even I got it done first time. On time. http://www.halfords.com/motoring-tr...ropat-vizibleed-brake-and-clutch-bleeding-kit