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Depends on the bike but non abs are pretty simple. Get a bottle and a brake bleed tube, open the master cylinder, open the bleed valve with the bleed tube on it, squeeze the brake lever and watch the bubbles in the bottle, close the valve, release the brake lever, check the master cylinder and top up if necessary, repeat until no bubbles or you've flushed the brake fluid.
Otherwise all the usual car tricks work, like vacuum etc.. Just that on a bike you can reach the brake lever and the bleed valve at the same time so it's doable by one man.
You might find after all that the brakes are pretty similar, maybe just ride slower :)
Airhead
So the upgrade curse has struck. New Springs, oil and rear shock upgrade highlighted that braking really needs some attention. I have no idea when It was all last serviced.
To all you spanner masters out there.
Any ghetto service advice? I can hack and bleed your Shimano/Hope/SRAM system, so I'm going to hazard this is quite similar.
Can I just single syringe the whole affair or will it be an Avid like jobby?