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Submitted by
squirrel
from ma
Date Reviewed: 3/15/2008 4:18:34 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $20 |
| Strengths: | none |
| Weaknesses: | overpriced, bad instructions, short hose, miserly portion of brake fluid, no container to catch fluid |
| Bottom Line: | I've bled brakes on cars, trucks, and motorcycles, and I couldn't get this kit to work for the life of me. If you follow their directions exactly you'll keep sucking air in through the master cylinder (it says NOT to submerge the line), and the pistons will pop out and dump fluid everywhere when you pump the lever. |
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Submitted by
Al Robinson
a Cross Country Rider
from UK
Date Reviewed: 1/5/2008 6:43:25 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Haldon |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $20 |
| Strengths: | Adaptability |
| Weaknesses: | Following the instructions |
| Similar Products Tried: | - |
| Bike Setup: | Specialized, Marzocchi, Hayes 9s |
| Bottom Line: | If you use this product as it is intended it is rubbish, I bought a 60ml syringe and adapted that with the fittings. Holding the syringe upright you can tap all the air out so you don't put any air in. Tape the supplied (squeezy) bottle to your headset, take the cap and cut the end off so the hose fits snug, then make an air hole in the top of the bottle, put the two togther and loop the hose over to the master cylinder. Attach the syringe to the brake hose or somewhere to hold it and the end to the caliper and just push the fluid in, you can see the air in the hose as the bottle fills up. If you follow all the stuff about the pads, lever etc it's a piece of cake, no fluid anywhere. I now have the brakes as tight as a ducks butt...... |
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Submitted by
steve wilford
a Downhiller
from whistler
Date Reviewed: 6/28/2007 11:53:10 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | Dirt Merchant |
| Duration Product Used: | 3 months |
| Price Paid: | $25 |
| Purchased At: | Katmandu Cylces (Whistler) |
| Strengths: | All the bits fit together??? thants about it. |
| Weaknesses: | Everything else! |
| Similar Products Tried: | None |
| Bike Setup: | Kona Stinky, Race face, Sram x-0, hayes, Deemax, 888RC2 |
| Bottom Line: | The squeezey bottle is too small if you have adult size hands, the squeezy bottle burst last time i used it, currently looking for a replacement bottle. If you loosen the caliper bleeder by more than 1/4 turn fluid leaks everywhere and sucks in air. No catch bottle, get sod all brake fluid with the kit thats way overpriced!!!! |
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Submitted by
chris o
a Cross Country Rider
from Fort Collins, CO, USA
Date Reviewed: 5/27/2007 9:50:29 PM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | holy cross |
| Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only |
| Price Paid: | $24 |
| Purchased At: | performance |
| Strengths: | none |
| Weaknesses: | crappy squeeze bottle, no bottle for catching fluid, way overpriced. |
| Bike Setup: | Ironhorse Hollowpoint Expert. |
| Bottom Line: | This was the first time I have bled brakes on something other than a motorcycle or a car. It turned out to be a nightmare. I went through the whole bottle of fluid, and got about half and half fluid and air in one line. I followed the directions exactly, but all that did was drag more air into the line. I plan on finding a syringe to finish the job. Don't waste your money this product. |
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Submitted by
esmundo
from toronto
Date Reviewed: 5/12/2007 8:42:40 PM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only |
| Price Paid: | $20 |
| Purchased At: | LBS |
| Bottom Line: | Don't waste your money this kit is a POS. How can hayes came up with that little plastic bottle idea?? Ridiculous. |
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Submitted by
Nathan
a Cross Country Rider
from louisville, KY
Date Reviewed: 11/10/2005 10:41:33 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Purchased At: | LBS |
| Strengths: | It works. |
| Weaknesses: | Next to impossible to get the tubing over the bottle end. Should come with a waste fluid container |
| Similar Products Tried: | None |
| Bike Setup: | KHS Team softtail, Hayes discs |
| Bottom Line: | This could be easier to use, but it still works. The reason they have a squeeze bottle is so that it pulls the air out of the caliper after you squeeze and release. To keep the hose on it, you have to get the hose at least to the line on the cap. It's a pain in the butt, but it stays. Use a zip tie on the hose to keep it on the bleed screw on the caliper. It's really rather easy to do if you follow the instructions. I would rather have a syringe, but the bottle works just fine. Before you bleed be sure to take out the pads and walk the pistons back all the way into the caliper, otherwise air will stay right behind the slave cylinders and you will still have spongy brakes. The biggest problem I had was with the step in the instructions when you cycle the master cylinder (lever). For some reason, when I did my front brake it stroked the caliper and the piston fell out of the caliper. That got brake fluid everywhere. It was not the bleed kit's fault though. The G2 caliper is super easy to rebuild that it wasn't really a problem though. Just keep an eye on the pistons when you are stroking the lever. Other than my own mistake, I had no real problems with this bleed. Other than my piston coming out, I spilled no brake fluid. Just be sure follow the instructions and you'll have nice firm brakes in about 10 minutes. |
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Submitted by
Kyle
a Cross Country Rider
from Castro Valley, CA
Date Reviewed: 7/27/2005 10:28:52 AM |
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| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $19 |
| Purchased At: | LBS |
| Strengths: | None |
| Weaknesses: | Squeeze bottle completely sucks... |
| Similar Products Tried: | None |
| Bike Setup: | Kona Bear-Dee-Lux |
| Bottom Line: | Don't even waste your time with this kit. It's absolutely rediculous. I ended up with more brake fluid on my garage floor than in my braking system. It's impossible to use the squeeze bottle and be able to pump the fluid out the top. Get a syringe to replace the bottle and they might have something that actually works. |
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Submitted by
Dave Dave
a Cross Country Rider
from Baltimore, MD
Date Reviewed: 4/20/2005 4:01:03 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | anything with a challenge |
| Duration Product Used: | 6 months |
| Price Paid: | $20 |
| Purchased At: | lbs |
| Strengths: | Includes the fluid |
| Weaknesses: | can't actually get the fluid in to the brake system |
| Similar Products Tried: | None, I have hayes brakes so I bought the hayes kit. |
| Bike Setup: | trek liquid 10 |
| Bottom Line: | The squeeze bottle system and the whole procedure just seem stupid. Its nearly impossible to fill the system with one sqeeze of the bottle, and releasing the bottle sucks your fluid back out of the system. Squeeze hard on the bottle and fluid will leak through the bottle cap threads. Keep in mind that you have to push fluid uphill in the service procedure. No container is included to capture the waste fluid at the lever. I'm new at servicing disc brakes, however I really don't see how you could use this kit without spilling fluid and most probably introducing air into the system. |
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Submitted by
charlie
a Weekend Warrior
from honolulu,hi
Date Reviewed: 6/8/2003 1:19:43 AM |
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| FavoriteTrail: | mililani |
| Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month |
| Price Paid: | $20 |
| Purchased At: | jenson |
| Strengths: | none |
| Weaknesses: | do not buy this product! instead of a syringe you get a crappy squeeze bottle. i didn't know any better and tried using the squeeze bottle only to end up spilling brake fluid everywhere. got a syringe from a friend and bled my brakes in a few minutes. |
| Bike Setup: | enduro pro |
| Bottom Line: | save your money |
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