Front brake treatment

[Spendthrift]

My lever was touching the grip so i dropped the bike off at dealers and they did the bleed treatment. I know it wont last but feels great at the moment. They said they didn't know of any other remedy to cure it permanently yet.

[elpirtdeeps]

I am really sceptical of these Dealers that claim they are fixing the problem (albeit temporarily) by bleeding the brakes.

It would not surprise me if in bleeding the brakes they are just doing what many of us are already doing, that is, pumping the caliper pistons in and then pushing them back out again. This helps frees up any sticking pistons. This so called new Triumph bleed procedure is probably to remove the calipers and hang them such that the bleed nipple is at the highest point. This is in fact nothing new and I have been doing it for years on my GTS and it does help to get all the air out.

In order to bleed with the calipers removed you need to put something between the pistons to stop them coming competely out of the caliper. Thus you end up moving the pistons beyond their normal resting position and then push them back a long way in when you reinstall the calipers.

I did my brakes yesterday and they are really bomber now. No bleeding at all. The lever could be very easily pulled into the bar before, but not now. I noticed that some of the pistons were very reluctant to move at all and it took quite a bit of cleaning and pushing/pumping back and forth until they would free up.

[Spendthrift]

You are properly right, but i have not a garage to do this sort of work so if i have to go and drop my bike at the dealers every now and then thats fine by me. If enough people did this instead of doing it themselves I'm sure this would soon start pissing off the dealers and then they might put added pressure on Triumph to do more to rectify this problem permanently. So if your dealer is nearby,get them to do the bleed, they will soon get pissed off doing freebies.