Interesting ride home today. Left work without problem and cruised out the gate. Made a few stops and the brakes seemed fine. Got to within a couple miles of the house approaching a stoplight and tried to stop and couldn't. Doing about 45 MPH and trying to figure out what to do. A car stopped in each lane waiting for the light to change and downshifting is not going to put me at 0 MPH before impacting them. Thought about doing the Fred Flinstone technique, but didn't think that would work either. Okay, only choice is to run the red. Luck is changing as the light turns green, but still have 2 cars in front of me. Well, guess I will be splitting them. Don't think they were very happy, but we made it through and managed to get home without further incident. Got off the bike and discovered that the right front air bleeder valve had come loose and had brake fluid on that side of the front tire. Don't know how or why it happened, but got it tightened and rebled then took her for a test ride and no problems.
Do the bleeder valves come loose very often? Glad it wasn't any heavy traffic. Should this become part of the pre-ride check?
Do the bleeder valves come loose very often? Glad it wasn't any heavy traffic. Should this become part of the pre-ride check?
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