Purchased a 2008 GL1800 / Hannigan trike the other day... Noticed the rear brakes were a tad spongy so showed it to my dealer and he wheeled it into his shop to bleed the brakes for me. After well over an hour he tells me that this model was up for a recall and since he wasn't a Honda dealer I'd have to take it to Honda to see if the work had been done... Well, that was no problem, the Honda dealer was about 3 miles away so here we go... Turns out my bike showed up as having the recall completed on both the rear master cylinder as well as the air bag last year... Said my trike guy probably didn't know how to bleed the brakes properly and could I bring it back to Honda today to let them try... Well, they worked on it all day, bled the brakes 9 ways to Sunday, even replaced the master cylinder that had previously be done in the recall and bled 'em some more, but the petal is still spongy...
Does anyone have a suggestion?... The tech even had the audacity to tell me that since the brake lines were higher than the caliper that you could never get the air out of the system... I asked him if he had ever seen the front brake line on a motorcycle... He thought for a minute and had no more excuses...