[Closed] Where to get plastic tubing for bleeding Hope brakes?

halfords - windscreen washer pipe

Nahh, you don't need a kit. Hopes are the easiest brakes in the world to bleed.

Any old tubing will do. Maplin? Aquarium shop?

Got mine from B&Q. cost pence.

halfords - windscreen washer pipe

Win - there's a Halfords just down the road.

Thanks folks.

But how do you get it to stay on the nipple? Keeps falling off, especially when wet.

brewers supplies are a good bet too. Never used more than cheap plastic pipe and a jam jar to bleed brakes before and I'm proud to say my bike shop commented on the "good bleed" on my Hopes

But how do you get it to stay on the nipple? Keeps falling off, especially when wet.

it's the wrong size then

But how do you get it to stay on the nipple? Keeps falling off, especially when wet.

On the slim chance this is not a wind-up 😀 you could try using a smaller diameter tube?
(have I just been "had"?)

(have I just been "had"?)

I think there's a good chance! 😉

No, serious question. My tube just won't stay in place. always falls off, and the end gets knackered with keep pushing it back on, so I cut it, and shorten it then it gets knackered again, so I cut it.......

zip tie?

I dismantled a hand wash pump thing to get a bit of pipe when my brake exploded a couple of weeks ago on a weekend away.

B&Q have reels of different diameter plastic tubing. Easy. Even for Sir Neil. 🙂

Tubing attached to a syringe and do it 'bottom up' - as it were 😆

maybe your tube isn't flexible enough. It is a problem I have never encountered with the brewers tubing I use

Tubing attached to a syringe and do it 'bottom up' - as it were

have a good length of the piping (so the fluid doesnt reach the end during bleeding) and cable tie it to tubing so that the natural coil of the piping sits nicely on the nipple

+1 for halfords

if you cant find the right size by smaller thank you need, get a lighter/heat- heat it up and push it on the nipple, will shrink to the right size