Need assistance from someone in Long Beach area to look at a bike for me

[derby]

Wanna buy mine? 

adventure or no?

[Popeye the Sailor]

Wanna buy mine?  I'm considering selling after the brake bleed discovery (it's getting fixed Saturday). Already has a custom dished out seat. 

What brake bleed discovery was this?



And how much? 

[cyrus buelton]

Wanna buy mine?  I'm considering selling after the brake bleed discovery (it's getting fixed Saturday). Already has a custom dished out seat. 

I'm in   



JJ had a clip that came loose which caused his rear brake to loose all the fluid.

He can tell you about the trainwreck it is to bleed the ABS system.


A co-worker said there are 13 bleed points on the system..............

I can't confirm or deny that claim.

[Triple J]

adventure or no?

Regular

What brake bleed discovery was this?

And how much? 

Mine is an '05 which has servo-assisted ABS brakes...essentially power brakes. Depending upon who you talk to the servo assist is good or bad. BMW quit using servo assist on the '07 GS.I don't really mind it, other than it being unneeded complexity IMO.

Anyway, like Jud said, the steel line that feeds my rear brake circuit popped out of the ABS/servo unit and pissed brake fluid all over the ground. I rode home with only front brakes no biggie, pulled the tank (really easy) and found out that nothing had broke, the clip that holds the line into the ABS/servo unit had just come undone, presumably from not being installed correctly.

But now I need to bleed the rear brake circuit. 10 minutes on the Ducs. There are tubes and shit everywhere on this thing so I get onto advrider.com and find instructions. First thing is I need a special funnel with a threaded end and o-ring on it...this screws into the ABS/servo unit where you add fluid. $200 at a BMW shop, or I can order a couple things and make one for $30. After that the rear caliper is fairly simple. The rear brake pedal portion though requires 3 separate reservoirs on the ABS unit to be bled. WTF. So for the rear brake only I have to bleed 4 things...and build a new tool to do it.

At this point I was disgusted, and still am a little...so I'm thinking of selling it and waiting to see what Ducati comes out with, then deciding on that, a Tiger, or a Stelvio.

I know that after I have the tool this isn't that big of a deal...but it makes what should be a 10-20 minute job into more like a 2-3 hour job, which is lame IMO. The local BMW shop charges 3.5 hours to bleed the brakes, the local mechanic that I prefer charges 2.5 hours. Sucks, as this should be done yearly.

Anyway, not a huge deal...especially if someone doesn't work on their own bikes. Seems like BMW over-engineered the system to me though. 

Oh yeah...I'd like $9K. 18K service, and final drive service just completed...entire bike given a good bill of health. BMW vario side panniers, and new Caribou top case. Brakes just flushed.  Custom dished out Rich's seat...so anyone over 5'-10" will need to invest in a Sargent or something.

Still not positive I'm going to sell it...but I'm thinking about it.