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Its purely for lever feel, oh and slightly cheaper aswell :)

You will eventually get sticky seals on the slave pistons but it takes a good few years to get that bad and can be resolved by bleeding with a water/oil emulsion.

IMHO its as easy to bleed brakes with water or oil, water is a bit easier to clean up if you spill any. I always syringe bleed anyways as its the most sensible option if you have a bleed kit.

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found it very easy with water as you can fill up your sink with water bleed it whislt under water and if done correct you will not have any air in the brake making the brake feel much nicer, also water is thinner than oil so there is less friction going through the hosing meaning you have a better response at the slaves. but it is just down to your own choice but i prefer water over oil

downside is that during the winter water will freeze where oil would still be fine

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  SunshineDiver said:
Haha kl. I thought it had like some super tech advantage like made the brake feel more controllable :P.

Exactly like Ads said, it just makes your brake feel alot better; but you can get sticky pistons after a while.

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I have beeen using a water bleed for a little over a year now and I prefer it over oil and WD40 which I've also used. In terms of simplicity, bleeding with water is about as simple as it gets.

I fill the sink up give the system a few pumps and its done. Alot of people have mentioned that it can damage seals and cause your pistons to stick. I have not had any problems with this. I do, however, add a fair amount of anti-freeze to the water and I was told this helps act as a lubricant for the seals and such. I also lubricate the pistons(from the outside) with a little oil every now an then. Regardless, its worked well for me and they are much "snapier" than when bled with oil.

Give it a go!!

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  in_aww said:
I have beeen using a water bleed for a little over a year now and I prefer it over oil and WD40 which I've also used. In terms of simplicity, bleeding with water is about as simple as it gets.

I fill the sink up give the system a few pumps and its done. Alot of people have mentioned that it can damage seals and cause your pistons to stick. I have not had any problems with this. I do, however, add a fair amount of anti-freeze to the water and I was told this helps act as a lubricant for the seals and such. I also lubricate the pistons(from the outside) with a little oil every now an then. Regardless, its worked well for me and they are much "snapier" than when bled with oil.

Give it a go!!

And with antifreeze in the winter .. you guessed it!

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