Master Cylinder Bleeder: Galespeed 17mm VRC

Another comment here for years of Stahlbus bleeders use. The fit, finish, and ease of use are second to none.
The function of the bleeders allow for convenient flushing of your fluid.
They're excellent.

 

Thanks for all the feedback guys!
Its possible he didn't have experience with the stahlbus bleeders, seems everyone who uses them here has had good experience, which is great to hear.

In regard to proper bleeding technique with standard bleeders he basically said the hose needs to be long enough to travel upwards above the caliper so that the fluid starts to fill up the tube in an vertical direction before turning down into the catch bottle. This fluid build up in the tube prevents excess air from getting sucked back into the caliper when you release the lever, if the fluid travels downward right away into the bottle and only air is in the tube, air will get sucked in when releasing the lever.

 

A little brake grease on the threads of the bleeder will keep air from trying to come back through the threads, as well.

My thing with the speed bleeders is....you have to put a tube and catch bottle on there anyway, so what's really the point?

 

The point is you don’t have to manually open and close the bleeder every lever pull. And the check valve prevents back feeding air by design.

 

Right, but you can accomplish the same thing with Tygon tubing creating the air lock. To be fair, I always open and close the bleeder even when I create the air lock with the Tygon.

I think they might be good for cars, but on a bike, you can open and close the bleeders all the way around with your hand on the lever. Plus they look all goofy sticking a mile out of the caliper/master

 

Without the check valve, your method would still require closing the bleeder before releasing the brake lever. Otherwise, the fluid just goes backwards and forwards. And I think the mile long bleeders look neato.

 

Never mind.

 

Ended up getting the "power" standard size lever for the VRD master from We Bike. It is infact the same lever as the VRC/VRE and it only took 5 days to arrive from Japan which I think is pretty fast.

For anyone wondering how this lever compares in size and shape to the "straight" shorty lever which came standard on the master from Graves, there's a link to an image below where I compare them. I could not find any comparison images of this sort anywhere when I was doing research so thought I would share it.

Hopefully this helps someone.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ztQsq_-e_EDVplZPl0uGL9dtm9hZSeof/view?usp=sharing

 

Air wants to go up.

 

I've never tried it that way, probably out of stubbornness because "that's how I've always done it" . I have heard that it's the best method in a dry system

 

I tried speed bleeders many moons ago, and didn't like them on the bikes either.

 

Try a Stahlbus bleeder when you get a chance.