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I put a Bluetooth receiver in the bike. Just stream any playlist I want off the phone. Way easier for me.

Just walked in the door. Stopped to eat with the youngest in Huntsville.

Just walked in the door. We detoured through Huntsville to visit the rocket scientist.

Patricia and I had to come home Saturday morning and didn't get to go see the crew before we left. It was a wonderful trip and I was thankful to get to meet some fine people. I pray everyone makes it home safely. Steve.

I heard Skid, Mike & Shirley, made it home safely. yawl let us know when you make it home, you know family worries.

We are glad to see everyone and we had a good time and some nice rides

It is possible that you need to rebuild the master cylinder. It's not a difficult or expensive job, but sometimes necessary.

OK. I drained and ran new DOT synthetic fluid today. Still can not get full pedal. Rode the bike and it will not slide tire on dirt road. Looks like there is still air coming out while using the vacuum pump. Why is that? Is there a trick to bleeding to get air out. As I said every time I change a tire off, my brake pedal got softer. I have fluid coming using my vacuum bleeder, but it still looks like air bubbles coming into line from the bleeder valve. I took bleeder valve out and put thread tape on, replaced and still looks that way. I have never done brakes other than pump and bleed on cars. Is there sometime I am over looking or a trick to bleed. I read somewhere about someone using what they called reverse bleeding, where you force fluid back into the reservoir thur the bleeder valve. I'm at my wits end. Any suggestions will be appreciated. If you know of anyone on here that could help. Thank you in advance.

2nd gen are not linked. Make sure you have fluid. I change the brake fluid in all my bikes every two years regardless of miles ridden

Ride it to get it warmed up, leave it running and get a propane torch that has propane in it. Open the torch valve but do not light it. No go around the intake with the propane torch and see if there is any change in the engine. If not, an intake leak can be ruled out, if there is a change then you have a leak and needs to be addressed.

Can't remember if the 2nd gen has linked brakes, so the front left with the rear. If they do you can find lots of air in the line going through the triple tree. There will be a bleeder screw there.

Blue sky, thank you for your post. I'm having same problem. 2002 RSV 135k miles. Every time I change a rear tire, my brakes got worse. Now will not slide tire on dirt. I just used my vacuum pump to change all fluid and still looks like bubbles coming into the clear line. I have run about 4 or 5 oz thur it. Any other advice. I have never rebuilt a master cylinder. Thank you.

I, he did not in this case. Just the rubber diaphragm and slipped down.

Did he rebuild it??? Did it correct the problem??? thank you

The brakes on the RSV are not linked. Take a look at this thread.

The brakes on the RSV are not linked.

Another question about the unit, it works great with the one glaring issue. When it starts it is on disk one. However there seems to be no way to switch disks without having to go to last song on disk one play it then it switches to disk two. The get to disk three again go to last song on disk two, play it and then switches to disk three. Keep repeating till you get to disk six. Or just play the entire disks and on to the next. I can find no manual on using the changer from the Yamaha controller. Any thoughts?

Good evening to all. Simply relaxing on a Friday night. Just got done watching a nice series of Tough Rides for 3 Episodes involving 2 brothers that circumnavigate China, India and Brazil on motorcycles. It was fun watching all three episodes and it was never boring from beginning to end. Because of the show on Prime, I started checking out the BMW 1250GS Adventure bike and I wish to get some time to check out the bike in person at a dealership near me.

OK. I drained and ran new DOT synthetic fluid today. Still can not get full pedal. Rode the bike and it will not slide tire on dirt road. Looks like there is still air coming out while using the vacuum pump. Why is that? Is there a trick to bleeding to get air out. As I said every time I change a tire off, my brake pedal got softer. Does the rear brake pedal operate just the rear or is it like a goldwing, front and back?

What does that entail?

Brake fluid is hydroscopic, meaning it has a affinity to absorb moisture, water although considered to be an incompressible fluid, often has dissolved air in it, that dissolved air is compressible. Just as a note, Honda recommends the entire brake hydraulic brake systems on the Goldwings be flushed and replaced with new fluid, every two years, that system is a bit more complex that that on a Venture, but replacing your brake fluid at some regular interval be it time or miles, is a good thing to do. Again Speedbleeders make that job way easier to do, just pump the old fluid out into one of their catch bags using the lever or pedal depending on front or rear brakes, refill the master cylinder before it is empty and your done in no time.

Sounds like an intake leak.

I have not done a complete fluid change. Never have done one, but maybe that is the time. With my vacuum pump, I never could get a complete stream of fluid. Never had fluid go bad. Thank you.

Lisa and I made it Thursday evening. Here now with Rosemary and Dave, Tina and Ron. I-75 was a nightmare coming down...will go back via 77.

Have you flushed out the brake fluid to ensure there is no old contaminated fluid in the system? Have you inspected or rebuilt the rear master cylinder? Try getting a speed bleeder for the rear bleeder port, those work great make bleeding a breeze. I would also consider going back to OEM rotor, you can check the specs on the rotor thickness requirements in the service manual found in the tech section here on the forum. Well I see Freebird beat me to it as I was typing.