Rear Brake
When bleeding the rear brake, the bleed valve must be at the highest point. On the 900ssie, this necessitated unbolting the caliper from the carrier and putting the caliper on top of the disc so the bleed valve was at its highest point and the pads could still squeeze against the disc. That's the factory manual method anyway and appears to get all the air out when I do it that way.
I believe the 1000 DS's have carriers that now place the brake caliper on top of the disc rather than below like on the 900SSie's? Can't recall what position they placed it for the SS800.
You should be able to lock the rear brake easily on them at 20-30mph.
Rear brakes are good for dabbing just before using the fronts (reduces gyro effect of rear wheel so front doesn't dive as much), on downhill bends under power (to be able to crack the throttle and get weight off front tire), holding the rear down over off-camber rises (again the gyro effect) to name a few instances.....
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