Two items. First off, in 15 years and with 7 bikes I have never had to refill a brake fluid resevoir. In fact I have probably never even checked. Well you might want to.
I have an '03 40th and have around 3k miles on it so far. One of the few complaints I can make about the Busa is that the brakes suck compared to other bikes I have had, strong but no feel (mushy). I just got used to it and never gave it a second though.
Well this weekend I happened to glance at the resevoir level window and low and behold the sucker is empty! Now what makes no sense is that I meticulously maintain and clean my bike. There is no leak of any measureable rate to be found, not a drop. It scared the begeezes out of me thinking what if it failed while I was out riding.
Now to the second item. I bought some DOT 4 fluid from my dealer to add to the resevoir and now I need to know can I bleed the system myself? It seems obvious to me that it never was bled properly to begin with which explains the mushy feel. Now it has settled somewhat and drained out the resevoir. Otherwise I would like to know where my fluid went?
This has got me kind of iritated because I have never ever had such a thing come up and it involves an inherintly important part of the bike. No excuse for this if it was indeed not bled by the dealer or the factory. They will hear about this but I want to get my facts straight before I shoot off at the mouth.
And lasty, everyone, PLEASE CHECK YOURS! Be safe.
I have an '03 40th and have around 3k miles on it so far. One of the few complaints I can make about the Busa is that the brakes suck compared to other bikes I have had, strong but no feel (mushy). I just got used to it and never gave it a second though.
Well this weekend I happened to glance at the resevoir level window and low and behold the sucker is empty! Now what makes no sense is that I meticulously maintain and clean my bike. There is no leak of any measureable rate to be found, not a drop. It scared the begeezes out of me thinking what if it failed while I was out riding.
Now to the second item. I bought some DOT 4 fluid from my dealer to add to the resevoir and now I need to know can I bleed the system myself? It seems obvious to me that it never was bled properly to begin with which explains the mushy feel. Now it has settled somewhat and drained out the resevoir. Otherwise I would like to know where my fluid went?
This has got me kind of iritated because I have never ever had such a thing come up and it involves an inherintly important part of the bike. No excuse for this if it was indeed not bled by the dealer or the factory. They will hear about this but I want to get my facts straight before I shoot off at the mouth.
And lasty, everyone, PLEASE CHECK YOURS! Be safe.