I went over to my brothers place today to give him a hand working on his motorcycle.
So a week or 2 back he got the fork seals done and tyres. He supplied the tyres, hence why i went down to the bike shop as tyres were in my car. Apparently bridgestone batlaxx hypersports are heaps good tyres for sports bikes. I dunno, i dont ride. My brother had pirelli rossi somethings on it before which are also apparently good.
Anyhow, dropped the bike and tyres off. Drove my brother home, he does have a car. But next morning picked him up to get the bike.
So yes, tyres and fork seals were done. Hooray for the stupid labour cost, but hooray. But they said front pads were shot.
My brother is an idiot, but hes not a idiot.
So not only, his words not mine, were the front brakes non existent, the dunces leaked brake fluid on his paint.
So a we did a full flush on his brakes. He was waiting on pads. On a 2011 z1000
abs model, the bleeder on the resivour is an 8mm, the bleeders on the clappers is 10mm. So yeah, bled that and brakes worked.
Today with the new pads. Pulling the 4 piston front clappers. Looking at the pads. The bike shop people are raging pieces of crap. Measuring equipment was used. When both a steel ruler and verniers are used and no maths just its 50% or there abouts. Yeah, a liberal amount of brake cleaner and the new pads went back on the shelf (un opened). So my brother is suitably anal about motorcycle safety, so we did needlessly bleed the brakes again.