Front Magura was working brilliantly yesterday - bled off the bike, with the dual syringe method, which apparently involves pulling a mild vacuum on the top syringe whist waggling/knocking the entire assembly around. According to Pete all of a sudden two bubbles came out (presumably they'd been hiding in the shifter) and it now feels much better than the Zee. Which I have on the rear still, as bleeding a brake system off the bike, when the bike has internal routing, is hard.
Presumably this is why your brakes weren't working.
Sounds exactly like the problem I had with my SRAM road levers, took me 3 goes over 2 days to get them working. Left me wishing they were Hope brakes, which I know are messy but they're simple.
Front Magura was working brilliantly yesterday - bled off the bike, with the dual syringe method, which apparently involves pulling a mild vacuum on the top syringe whist waggling/knocking the entire assembly around. According to Pete all of a sudden two bubbles came out (presumably they'd been hiding in the shifter) and it now feels much better than the Zee. Which I have on the rear still, as bleeding a brake system off the bike, when the bike has internal routing, is hard.