Bleeding brakes on a motorcycle?

Does one bleed brakes on a motorcycle in the same fashion as in a car? are there two seperate circuits for front and back?

rob

Yes.

Yes.

The only exception is that there are a few motorcycles, particularly with drum brakes, that have used cable / mechanical linkage designs. But if they're hydraulic, bleed them like a car.

Linked braking systems can be somewhat more complicated but it's really just more of the same actions. Treat it like a car and you're on your way.

I've heard of reverse bleeding them from the caliper up, but std usually works in my experience.

And brake fluid is brake fluid for cars and bikes?

Correct, interchangeable fluid. Just use the right DOT # and Bob's your uncle.

Just make sure the front brake hose at the handlebar does not loop up above the master cylinder. If it does you have to take the MC off the bar and raise it up to make the hose be below it.

Don't spill any brake fluid on the paint, it will eat right down to bare metal faster than you can grab a rag.

Ask me how I know......

914Driver wrote: Don't spill any brake fluid on the paint, it will eat right down to bare metal faster than you can grab a rag. Ask me how I know......

Brake fluid will only eat a nice looking paint job.

You can spill as much as you want on a sunburnt, faded, chipped, 30-year-old paintjob that you don't care about and it won't do a thing.

I use to do this a lot when I had supermoto wheels and dirt wheels for a dual sport. Using a vacuum bleeder at the caliper was a lot easier to do it by yourself