So having sent my bike to the LBS to get the spongy back brake sorted it come back feeling fine. Right – turn bike upside down, reattach chain, squeeze back brake to stop bike pinging into wall….

Nuts it’s squidgy. Right then, bottle of DOT fluid I’ve never had confidence to use, spanner, kitchen roll and away we go. It feels better, not quite perfect but a lot better than it was.

So I need to buy a length of tubing now rather than catching it all in a large ball of kitchen roll and have another go at this at some stage.

stand your bike upright, pull the brake on then tape the lever to the bars overnight – often helps quite a lot