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mad dan

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  1. I cant side hop at all but what I’ve gathered from seeing my mates do it, is if your right footed side hop to your left and visa versa, also when you are just about to take off get right down so your arse almost touches your tire. And then when you spring up your body will have more momentum which will pull the bike up, and then when you get up the wall crouch as low as you can and lean the bike over to the side which you hoped

  2. I bleed my brakes today with water for the first time, it worked ok until I got to step 4, I pumped the lever for ages but couldn’t get the brakes to bleed. Thinking about it! I realised that water was pumping in and out of the master cylinder without filling the brake lines and slave cylinders.

    I found the best way to fill the system without any air bubbles was to hold the master cylinder (handle bar lever) above the bucket of water (slave cylinders submerged with no bleed screw) and to pull the lever and hold it in, next seal the bleed hole with a finger (obviously with the bleed screw removed) and then quickly release the lever, this sucks up water through the slave cylinder with my finger acting as a non return valve.

    This routine was repeated until I could see plenty of water coming out of the master cylinder, when this occurred I quickly put the master cylinder under water, gave it a few more pumps and then installed the bleed screws.

    By the way I mixed the water with 25% of antifreeze so that the cylinders wouldn't corrode, I used an antifreeze that didn't contain methanol or ethylene glycol as these are very poisonous.

    Cheers

    Mad Dan

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