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Over the weekend I had some time to work on this some more and it turns out, only the right-side rotor is bent and is pushing the caliper inwards causing the handle to have to move further to make contact with the brake rotor. So I got out my handy pair of vice-grips and an adjustable wrench...

I've looked at the calipers and just eyeballed them and they seemed fine, but obviously looks can be deceiving. This is probably the next step since I don't have spare M/C assy laying around to test with, nor do I want to mess with pulling out Section 2 of your image (although I did take the...

I had some time to work on it today before the rain swooped in. Here's what I did: Took the top off of the master cylinder Opened both caliper bleeder valves Unhooked the hoses that go to both calipers Pumped the lever until no more fluid came out of either side Took both calipers off and...

This makes the most sense. I didn't realize the pucks get pushed backwards further when riding. I did quite a bit of bleeding last night with no luck so I'm betting I'll have to flush the system to get all the air out. I'll do that in the next couple of days and report back. Thanks!

The rotors on first glance looked fine, you'd think a bent rotor would still work when rolling but just be jerky or vibrate a lot. A friend of mine suggested a wheel speed sensor sending the wrong info to ABS but to my understanding, the 2013 FZ8 don't have ABS in north America.

We came up over a hill and the road came to a T so it was just an all out, slam on the brakes with the rear tire sliding. My roommate in front of me barely got stopped but his bike is lighter. There was a guardrail at the T so when I slowed down enough, I went to lean and try to turn and dodge...

So I was out for a ride today and long story short, took a turn too fast and laid bike down on the left side. There was no substantial damage, only a bent bar-end on the left side and some scratches. I killed the engine as soon as I could and then stood the bike back up and put down the kick...