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Lobo:
Nope, no servo assist, and yep, whilst I haven’t, I do reckon I could lock the front brakes with effort.
I too was coming to the conclusion that it isn’t worth it, purely on the safety concern of ‘the unknown’ … coupled to the fact that the stopping power is minimal at best - in modern traffic there’s little room for error. Given that realistically, there is indeed little on-going maintenance with DOT 4; I should perhaps stay here.

Trig, the car indeed is a Classic, but realistically a genuine work horse, and used daily. I’m not overly precious about her; more than once I’ve had to go into the books to check the allowable axle loads 😂.

K2-K6:
Simon, is it a single bore mastercylinder pushing into whole system back and front too  ?

Lobo:
Yep Nige, single bore / dual reservoirs isolating front & rear brakes.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
Dot 5.1 is a synthetic based fluid developed for ABS systems for the small price difference I've gone to 5.1 on both our cars the bikes 5.0.
A lot is down to personal choice a good branded Dot4 is probably better than a cheap 5.1.

K2-K6:
I do think currently uninformed opinion demonising dot4 is giving a big skew to these things out on the great wide interweb.

All of them will work reliably and we sensible types on here can see the pros and cons of each in relatively serene surroundings   :)

They really are nuts about it in cycles, but they do use something that could be of interest Simon. The use of syringes to dispense fluid is routine.  That may offer you a very convenient access and fill option for your mastercylinder location as they are routinely using a pipe, sometimes with a little clamp to hold fluid while moving it about for convenient non drip use.
"Bleed kit" for Sram/Avid or Hope brakes which use Dot 4 / 5.1 fluids generally would have the appropriate seals for this application. they are not usually of any great cost.

Most of the others use mineral oil, a la Citröen system of old.

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