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Well. It's a little hard to tell - they cleaned the rotor so the brake needs to be burnt in again, so it's got no bite/power, and I won't be able to tell what it does have until I've attended to that.
However, despite bleeding it three times the lever feel isn't where I know I can get it, so I'll look at that - likely after taking it for a ride to shake things around and get some heat into the system.
I know they spent a long time on aligning the calliper, but it's dragging on the rotor and off-centre quite significantly after riding it the three miles home. I assume it's drifted in use- which these do have a habit of doing, necessitating fairly frequent adjustment.
So I'll re-align the calliper and torque that up, burn it in, then take it for a ride and then get it back in the stand and bleed it again. Oh, and a lot of the paint has been chipped off the brake clamp, so I'll have to blast and repaint that.