How To Bleed Motorcycle Brakes The Simple Way (NO SPECIAL TOOLS)

How to bleed motorcycle brakes manually without the use of special tools. No vacuum pump, no air compressor, no weird reverse bleed stuff, just an 8mm wrench, clear tubing, and an old plastic bottle is all you really need.

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[lcama]

Clearest tutorial I've seen on bleeding brake fluid

[irfanaziz]

Literally one of the best guiding and clearest video I've seen. I was having a lot of trouble with my front brakes. I'll try this.

[annettetuszynski]

BEST VIDEO! I am a 66y/o F and miss riding so I purchased a 2020 Royal Enfield Continental GT 650, really like the cafe racer look. The back brake was soft so I had to bleed the line. Never doing this before, this video was a great teacher. Thank you so much!

[bronzestarvue]

That's how I learned to bleed motorcycle brakes 40 years ago, still do it that way today (on non-ABS bikes). Only things I would mention is you should put some brake fluid in the catch bottle so that the end of the hose is immersed in fluid (that will prevent air from getting sucked back into the hose), and make sure the end of the hose is below the level of the bleeder. Gravity will help pull down the fluid and bubbles, in addition to the pressure from the brake lever.

[harmoniousembodiment]

One of the clearest, to the point videos. Thank you

[TroyaE]

You will find it helps to stop for a while and tap-tap the brake lever. Often you will see air bubbles rising to the top of the reservoir level. Better that than pumping them down the whole way to the bleeder screw. Certainly bleed as normal, but stop occasionally and try the tap-tap on the brake lever.

[badbwoy]

This video couldn’t be any more straightforward I swear! Thank you bro!

[traviswhitworth]

Great directions. This helped me understand the process. I will be doing this tomorrow as i struggled trying to do it tonight before watching this. I'm confident I'll get it done correctly tomorrow! Thanks.

[markcoulson]

Good video. Little tip once finished pull the lever back as far as it will go and place a tie wrap around the lever and bar and leave overnight, this will force any tiny amounts of air in the system to the reservoir then release next day and loosen the reservoir cap to allow any excess air pressure to escape and recheck fluid levels.

[alexchr]

I have been searching for a week now on how to change my bike's break fluids. This is the most helpful video I have found, it is as clear as my new break fluids, don't need to look further. Thanks a lot!

[PankajMittal]

I overhauled the entire Disk brake system including the master cylinder and the caliper. No brakes whatsoever afterwards. Tried bleeding air watching some other videos. No success.
Then, your video and voila! Did the process almost 30-40 times. No effect perceived for 25 cycles. Got disappointed but didn’t stop. And then suddenly, you get the pressure! Thanks bro!! Awesome!

[thedaydreamer]

Good video, I will say that I find it much easier to reverse bleed brakes with a 150ml syringe, you essentially pump the fluid straight through, then you can open and close bleed screw and pump the brake to build pressure, I always found I had more luck with that method

[sueno_permanente]

If you were my teacher i would have stayed in class. Speechless! Very informative love the part about troubleshooting etc. saves the end of the world feeling when something is wrong! Thanks

[DCAT]

This is by far the best brake bleeding instructions video out there. Thanks!

[eric_b_]

One of the best straight forward videos I’ve seen. Great video.

[binerjitsingh]

Easy to understand easy to complete my pending work. I was headache about this bubbles things after watching this it's really easy now thank you sir

[denesealayon]

Thanks for this video man. It really helps me a lot. I'm planning to bleed my brakes for the very first time on my 2021 Yamaha R3. It'll cost me around 400 Philippine Pesos for the service plus the tip when i get this serviced on a dealership. This helped me saved a few pesos 😁 Thanks man.

[OvayBrandao]

Best and most straightforward video on bleeding the brakes 🤌🏽🤌🏽

[joe]

Excellent, clear guidance on bleeding brakes. Particularly helpful about the hose and thread air leaks. Thanks very much.

[Blackhart]

One trick I do is put zip tie over leaver over night and the rest of the air escape and in morning you have a hard brake with no air in it