Thank you. :)

So I've gotten about eight hours of seat time on my XJ750 this week, thanks in no small part to y'all's willingness to stick with my dumb ass as I worked through bleeding the brakes.

It's been sublime. She feels fantastic. Everything is utterly smooth. 83hp is just a twist of the throttle away. She pulls hard up to 7000rpm (which is as high as I've opened her up)... but she's quiet and sedate when you just want to cruise.

And the fairing is just brilliant. I can just duck down a little bit and it's nice and warm on 30 degree days.

I'm having a fantastic time. Thank you all.

 

As a reward, here's a quick walkaround of my cheerfully running Seca.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOHWJf26GjU

 

Your XJ sounds great man. I've heard quite a few XJ's that don't resonate that cleanly on video. Mine sounds that good, but it took a lot of love to get it there. Congrats on slaying the dragon! Love the color and fairing-great bike.

 

Your bike sounds great and its got to feel great to have it running so well but the front brake lever looked like it was going all the way to the grip!! I sure hope you aren't riding without a front brake or you are asking to become a statistic, and not a good one either. The front brake at minimum does 70+% of the stopping!!

jeff

 

Jeff is right flynnski! I was too busy checking out your bike the first time. It does look like your lever is traveling too far. You shouldn't be able to pull it all the way in-you may still have some air hiding in there somewhere.

 

You can push the brake lever to the grip with your thumb only!!!!!
You Officially have me scared of that bike. Feel free to post red splatter signs in your area. So that when I come through with the truck. I will know that the bump in the road was not a mazda.

If you get the lever to move more than half the travel to the grip then the brakes are not bled completely. You still have more bleeding to do. You should have firm steady presure on the lever by half travel.

Ghost

 

Yeah, I like my brake to feel "rock hard" after partial travel.

DaveF

 

AMEN. It should be like "squeezing a rock" after very little travel; that's why the lever has an adjustment screw-- so you can "add" some lever travel as needed to suit your hands, etc.

You're far from done with those brakes.

 

I agree, your brakes should be hard as a brick after about 1.5" of travel.

Young Padawan, need more work they do

 

After eight hours of riding, the little, lost air bubbles can collect into a nice bigger one right by the bleed screw, so hopefully bleeding that last bit of air will be easy.

 

Thanks guys. More bleeding helped quite a bit.

 

Awesome bike man and sound great. I'm jealous about the eight hours of riding. Will be a few months before we can ride here. I agree with the others, fix those brakes. Bike looks great.

 

Glad to hear that you fixed those brakes. They are a blast to ride but they do need to be able to stop. Nice looking bike!