bleeding brakes

I feel like more of a man now that I bled my own brakes… its been 3 years since I originally purchased my first pair of hydraulic disk brakes and this was the first time they have been bled … I noticed that I had some air bubbles in there long ago but put off fixing the problem for fear that I was going to mess something up.

it ended up not being too hard… it helped a lot to have this video to watch…


in anticipation of bleeding my brakes in the future I was shopping for some more DOT 5.1 brake fluid.

I found that…

you can buy the larger container for under $10 (500ml) or the small one avid sells costs $16 (120ml)… Pictured is the 60 ml avid brake fluid that came w/ the bleed kit and the motul 500ml brake fluid that I ordered.