• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Brake Bleeding Blues

Jughead

Jughead

Husqvarna
AA Class
I repositioned my front brake hose and added a speed bleeder today on my Strada. After about 5,000 pumps, I've only gotten a few bubbles in the reservoir and the fluid level might have dropped 1/16". This is my first ABS equipped bike. There MUST be a trick/technique that I'm unaware of. Can anyone chime in?
 
Try loosening the speed bleeder a bit more, it should flow just fine after that. You might also have a faulty bleeder. In my experience the only time a speed bleeder behaves the way you describe is when it is just a little too tight to allow for flow.
 
Got it! I don't know if the speed bleeder was defective or if I didn't have it turned out enough. I reinstalled the stock bleeder and all went well. At some time in the future I'll try the speed bleeder again (too damn hot and humid right now). I really didn't know if the ABS plumbing would cause a problem. It seems like a standard bleeding technique works just fine.
 
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