So you’ve decided to bleed your brakes. You know it’s worth doing for the cost savings, convenience, satisfaction and cool points. Now you’re tossing up between this kit and our basic bleed kit. 

Why this kit is rad

The key differences between this kit and our simple kit are a larger tall/narrow syringe (60mL) and lever funnel (60mL). This kit significantly reduces the amount of time taken to bleed your brakes and the mess that you’ll create.

Our simple bleed kit, and all competitor kits, use small (20-30mL) syringes and funnels. Your brakes contain 40-50mL of fluid. If you’re doing a full bleed, you’ll need to stop halfway through the bleed to refill the syringe and empty the funnel. That's easy enough to do, but you will burn 3-10 minutes with this faff. Connecting and disconnecting your bleed kit is also the single largest source of mess - doing this once instead of twice reduces the mess (& frustration) a bunch.

Additionally, other lever funnels are short and squat, which means bleeds need to be done with a levelled lever so fluid doesn’t spill out the side of the cup. After the bleed, you’ll then need to rotate your lever back to its original position. This tall & narrow lever funnel doesn’t need to change position for a bleed and you’ll have to accidentally knock it a lot harder to spill any fluid.

Other features of this kit

Brass thread
The brass thread won’t wear (or break) like plastic funnel threads are prone to. 

SecureLink adapter
The SecureLink adapter (that’s what we call it) does the following:

• Guides the hose onto the bleed nipple and reduces the effort required to get it on there
• Makes the connection significantly more secure which reduces the chance of accidentally pulling the tube off the caliper
• Eliminates connecting the hose on an angle which can introduce air when pulling the syringe

Securelink in action

The choices you have are:
Road adapter
An adapter to adapt the bleed funnel to the larger diameter bleed fitting of Shimano drop bar brakes - think road/gravel - Shimano 105, Ultegra, GRX and so on.

7mm spanner
Required to open the Shimano bleed port to get fluid flowing. Necessary, but a lot of you have them already!

Before you finish your purchase

Make sure you’ve got all the equipment to bleed your brakes. You’ll need the following:

• Some mineral oil, we offer either 250mL or 1L
• A bleed block