New Bike

[Fryin Finn]

I have just purchased another bike - off a fellow K'Biker. It's a MuZ Scorpion Tour. This is 2 Eurobikes in my Garage now, am I entitled to call Jap bikes crap.
But I have a problem - bleeding the rear brake. The rear brake caliper was replaced with the brake lines bled dry. When I came to top up the fluid reservoir and bleed the brakes nothing happened. I turned the screw on the caliper to let air and fluid out but it seems fluid aint getting into the master cylinder - could it be airlock or is my technique all wrong. This happened on my old XR 650 so I think it's me - does anyone have any tips for bleedin brakes.

[DemonWolf]

Congrats on the new purchase... Sorry can't help on the brake bleeding.. the one's I've done have been straight forward.. but it was only a GS550 =)

[F5 Dave]

Ahh, that's what you get for buying foreign muck laddy!
Wouldn't catch me with some daygo european bike, no sirree.


Don’t like those japa bikes either.

TasTakas only for this lad.

So the SRX is history then?

Re the brakes, sometimes horizontal ones are a prick to bleed.

Try wrapping a rag around the banjo bolt & bleeding both of those (cracking them open & closed as you push down) to get rid of the biggest airpockets