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[Closed] High speed interface between handlebar and tree

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Brake lever is now very spongy, will a good bleed resume normal order or is it something more serious / expensive?

thanks

I am ok by the way


 
Posted : 14/03/2018 7:04 pm
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If it pushed the lever in you may have popped a seal or over extended a piston on the caliper. So either a bit of fluid might have escaped or some air got in.

A bleed might sort it, or you might need to replace a piston seal.


 
Posted : 14/03/2018 7:20 pm
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Maybe you need to try some wider bars.


 
Posted : 14/03/2018 9:06 pm
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Blown a seal?


 
Posted : 14/03/2018 9:46 pm
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Thanks all - a good bleed sorted it but alarmed to see the lovely pink Shimano fluid was a black sludge when push up from the Caliper end. No blubber involved.

handlebars reset and ready to ride again.


 
Posted : 15/03/2018 9:43 am
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Thats why you need to replace fluids every year or two - wear particles and dust gets into it


 
Posted : 15/03/2018 10:38 am

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