Epic Bleed Solutions - Good Buy

pesky_jones

Highly recommend these for home bleeding kits. With oil, the whole kit (with fluid) for avid brakes costs 12.99 - whereas the official avid kit is nearly £30.00. I've never bled brakes before and from what I heard it was quite fiddly, however I managed to succesfully bleed the brakes in about twenty minutes first time. Epic Bleed Solutions - good buy

http://www.epicbleedsolutions.com/products/bleed-kits/

stubs

They are good the instructions are written by somebody who has done it themselves. Not by someone who probably last rode a bike when they were four then translated by google into Engrish.

pesky_jones

TBH i wasn't actually convinced with the instructions. I understood them easily, like you say - they were simple but it seemed stuff was missing so i went online and watched the SRAM vids. I think they missed out stuff like pulling and pushing the plunger back and forwards to get air out of the hose after you've pushed the fluid through. I was just pleased with the quality of components regarding their price! Half expected to get a syringe with holes in or something

stubs

In my experience the SRAM instructions are rubbish you dont need to do half what they say.

pesky_jones

Oh, I found it quite helpfull. When i did that pulling and pushing of the plunger etc. a load of air bubbles came out of the hose and into the syringe. If i hadn't of followed SRAMS instructions, they would still be in the hose now.

EH_Rob

+1, fast delivery, good kit, instructions even I could follow.

bluechair84

Thanks for the link, might need something for Shimano Saints in the future. I love bleeding brakes. It gets me so angry that I forget all my other problems. Very theraputic!

pesky_jones

bluechair84 wrote:

Thanks for the link, might need something for Shimano Saints in the future. I love bleeding brakes. It gets me so angry that I forget all my other problems. Very theraputic!

Yeah surprisingly I didn't get that angry. Kind of a let down seeing as i decided to bleed the breaks to forget anger issues with my ex. She probally works for epic bleed solutions. B1tch ruins everything.

ricardo_smooth

bluechair84 wrote:

Thanks for the link, might need something for Shimano Saints in the future. I love bleeding brakes. It gets me so angry that I forget all my other problems. Very theraputic!

Give me a shout when these need doing. I've got the proper workshop bleed kit for 'em that costs a bloody fortune to buy!

bluechair84

ricardo_smooth wrote:

bluechair84 wrote:

Thanks for the link, might need something for Shimano Saints in the future. I love bleeding brakes. It gets me so angry that I forget all my other problems. Very theraputic!

Give me a shout when these need doing. I've got the proper workshop bleed kit for 'em that costs a bloody fortune to buy!

Ah cool cheers smoothy. I'm doing a new build at the moment with my current crop of parts and I want to give everything a full going over; wheels trued, new bearings, freehubs cleaned, and brakes bled. I might ask come xmas hols when I've time to give what will be beyond TLC.

ricardo_smooth

no worries mate. You have my number

The Northern Monkey

Think I used them and wasn't impressed.

The screw bit into the avid lever didn't seal properly so I couldn't bleed my brakes Ended up getting the genuine belld kit from avid.

Have to admit, their instructions were great though, used them with the proper kit lol.

epicbleedkits

Thanks Pesky Jones and others for the great comments, we appreciate it.

The Northern Monkey wrote:

The screw bit into the avid lever didn't seal properly so I couldn't bleed my brakes Ended up getting the genuine belld kit from avid.

Northern Monkey, we've redeveloped our Avid kit quite a few times now. You may have tried one of our earlier bleed kits. Our latest bleed adaptors are virtually identical to the Genuine Avid's.. (only better cause ours support a wider range of brakes :P)

We'd be happy to send you one over to try if you'd like..

stubs

epicbleedkits wrote:

Thanks Pesky Jones and others for the great comments, we appreciate it.

The Northern Monkey wrote:

The screw bit into the avid lever didn't seal properly so I couldn't bleed my brakes Ended up getting the genuine belld kit from avid.

Northern Monkey, we've redeveloped our Avid kit quite a few times now. You may have tried one of our earlier bleed kits. Our latest bleed adaptors are virtually identical to the Genuine Avid's.. (only better cause ours support a wider range of brakes :P)

We'd be happy to send you one over to try if you'd like..

Did I forget to mention my adapter wouldnt seal either

stubs

Pesky Jones wrote:

Oh, I found it quite helpfull. When i did that pulling and pushing of the plunger etc. a load of air bubbles came out of the hose and into the syringe. If i hadn't of followed SRAMS instructions, they would still be in the hose now.

Never bothered with the de gassing thing Its a load of bull poo in my opinion, no other brake manufacturer reccomends it. As long as you leave the bottle of brakefluid to stand for a few hours there shouldnt be any air in the fluid.

epicbleedkits

stubs wrote:

Did I forget to mention my adapter wouldnt seal either

Haha, nice try Stubs.

pesky_jones

stubs wrote:

Pesky Jones wrote:

Oh, I found it quite helpfull. When i did that pulling and pushing of the plunger etc. a load of air bubbles came out of the hose and into the syringe. If i hadn't of followed SRAMS instructions, they would still be in the hose now.

Never bothered with the de gassing thing Its a load of bull poo in my opinion, no other brake manufacturer reccomends it. As long as you leave the bottle of brakefluid to stand for a few hours there shouldnt be any air in the fluid.

Leave the bottle to stand for a couple of hours? does air not get in when you suck it up with the syringe? Cheers I will try this.

epicbleedkits

I wouldn't recommend leaving the fluid bottle open for hours, exposed to the air as DOT fluid will absorb moisture from the ambient atmosphere reducing the boiling point. Always replace the lid as soon as possible.

Also de-gassing the syringes is something which only seems to be advocated by Avid's instructions. It does seem to work a little but it's impossible to remove all of the air from the fluid anyway. I usually do it twice and forget the rest.

It's more important to rid the syringes of any air present in the syringe after drawing the fluid into the syringe. Providing the adaptor is immersed under the fluid when you pull back on the syringe plunger the amount of air should be minimal anyway.

stubs

When I said leave the bottle to stand I didnt mean with the top off. Just let it stand so any bubbles that have been caused by it being joggled about on the way back from the shop work there way to top.

I have just finished putting new brake shoes on a mates car had to rewasher one of the wheel cylinders and you wouldnt believe the gunk that came out when I bled the brakes. The fluid was brown with actual lumps in it, flushed everything through and now it stops rather than gradually lose speed.