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So I’m doing my brake bleed, finally. My first time. I followed some videos and just did the front brake. No more air bubbles, but I still have to pull the brake lever about halfway to the handlebar before it “grabs”. New pads too.

sram guide r. I know, cheap brakes. But is that why I get so much pull still?

 

Did you pull the lever at all when you had the bleed port open?

 

Nope. Had it strapped, did the caliper bleed, unstrapped but held with finger, pushed caliper syringe to push the lever out. Then didn’t touch the lever again until after the lever bleed was done and everything was back together. New pads on, wheel on, then did squeezes on the lever to set it and it takes half a pull basically to “grab”

 

its been a bit, but im guessing you didnt adjust the reach on the levers and only did a bleed?

 

I adjusted them to 75-80mm as the video stated to do. Then did the bleed and new pads.

 

its been a bit, but im guessing you didnt adjust the reach on the levers and only did a bleed?

 

i dont think you want the lever strapped/close to the bar when you bleed the brakes. you should bleed the caliper and lever at the same time right? is this a newer set with the bleeding edge port? SRAM has great videos on their own stuff, trying to promote STU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRt-CP2l474&ab_channel=SRAMTECH

 

I don’t have the bleeding edge adapter, so I’m not really sure. I have sram guide r. I followed this videos procedure because it’s the only one I found that they weren’t using the bleeding edge adapter

https://youtu.be/nqdp7a7FXe8

 

@jjones.yota This is the same video I watched to do mine....Its only 6 minutes long but I probably watched 45 minutes worth of it to do my brakes.

 

Yeah I rewound and redid the video a lot haha.

 

Like the brakes don’t feel bad, but they don’t feel any different than before the bleed necessarily. Maybe a bit improved but that’s it. I thought they’d be like super super tight after bleeding.

 

Sounds like to me you need to take a harder "crash" that messes up the GoPro a little more so they replace it.

 

Read the 4th post in this thread:
https://www.pinkbike.com/forum/listcomments/?threadid=190668

 

Hm. Yeah not having the bleeding edge adapter I can’t do that, but I did think it was weird to “pressurize the system” then clamp the caliper syringe, then just take the syringe off lol.

 

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good post

 

Not sure how you have far back (in) you have your bite point set, I always dial mine out almost to max before a bleed and then dial it back in after.

 

I can’t adjust the bite point. Just the reach.

as far as I know..

 

Sorry, that’s what I meant. The reach.

 

I adjusted the reach to 75-80mm from the center line of the handlebar like the videos told me to.