The bargain Himalayan

[A_morti]

On the BMW's if you let air into the abs pump, you had to use the service tool to cycle the pump to bleed it properly. Alternatively, cycling the abs by skidding the wheel was meant to work, but when it's the front brake you generally want to avoid using the abs!

[A_morti]

Maybe the steel lines weren't fitted well, perhaps the copper washers were reused or doubled up? Can help to tap the banjo bolts with a hammer to squish the washers a bit more, and retorque.

[Bigjawa]

Took the suspension linkage and drop links off the bike to clean them up and give them a regrease - the drop links were the worst and were pretty dry with quite a bit of scoring to the faces of the needle bearing innners. Gave them a gentle whizz to remove the worst ridges and repacked. Should get another year out of them

My ones were worse, they showed absolutely zero evidence of grease whatsoever, there must have a been a grease shortage in Chennai that week.

My front brake was fine, my rear was crap, the anodising on the piston was corroded and the thing kept sticking, I looked at getting stainless pistons made but in the end, after I found out there was supposed to be a recall in place and neither the local dealer, nor RE themselves wanted to know, I sold the bike after other problems started showing up.