after a long slow charity run the next day the bike was hard to push, brakes work fine i get the feeling the bike is pulling to the left felt a little lose (better after a short run. Any thoughts if it is the callipers is it an easy fix?

Walshy

 

Your description is rather vague, more detail of the issue would help.
A bit of history helps, as does details of the bike (make-model and year).

That said, based on your comments...
There are a quite a few possibilities.

Bad/leaky fork seals.
Loose/bad steering head bearings.
Tripple trees out of alignment.
Caliper piston sticking, on the side that "pulls".
Rear caliper piston sticking.
Wheel bearings going out.
Or a combination of, all/some, of the above.

You might consider doing an inspection/maintenance of all of these areas.
Most of the areas have pretty detailed how-to's, in the general mechanics forum.
Try a couple of searches there for the specific tasks.

Hope this helps, Ern

 

The first thing I would do is put the bike up on the centre stand and check the front and rear wheels to see if they turn freely.

Also +1 to everything Ern suggested.

 

without overthinking the issue, its probably the LF caliper sticking. its an easy fix if u have any experience wrenching. if the frt wheel drags and the brake pads havent been contaminated, pull the caliper, drain fluid, remove bleeder, push compressed air into the bleeder hole while securing piston as its released from the caliper. remove seals and clean piston, caliper etc, check surfaces for pitting and if ok and no parts needed, and then coat with new brake fluid before reassembly, lube slides with silicone grease, then bleed per FSM . JMO good luck. easy job. u may want to do the RF when ur done

 

The easy check for a sticky caliper is simple.

Go for a quick blat around the block, pull up at home and quickly take your gloves off. This next bit is the part where you really need to "man up", quickly grab both of the front discs with your hands.

If one of them makes you go "Holy ****, that's hot", you have identified the sticky caliper.

Once you've done this test, report back, and we'll start working through what you need to do next.

Cheers
TK

 

I laughed so hard my sides hurt at that.
Be carefull doing this because depending on how hard you brake ALL of the discs could be very hot.

 

Have some cold water ready

 

Also, what year bike is it? LBS ??

 

where did you go Walshy?

 

Kiwi, is that the K.I.S.S method????

PMSL but it works. Tried gloved hands!!!