Firstly - look at the state of the mineral oil that came out of the breaks - FW #1 yes I should have bleed these ages ago.
My nephew dropped off the permanent donor bike I gave him to give it a quick spruce up. Rear break lever was pulling to the bar so chucked some new pads and gave it a bleed. Cool, give it a test.....
Lever still pulls to the bar, these are very entry level Tektros that clearly had seen better days judging by the oil - so I thought to myself, maybe they are stuffed, but give it another bleed, pull everything apart and spend the next hour or so checking just to make sure.
Nope still pull to the bar - no worries they may just have had their last hurrah. So spruce up the rest will sort something out another time. That night something is pissing me off, OK they weren't actually leaking and they still provide some stopping power what's going on?
Go out the next day see the adjustment screw for the lever - it's wound right out - 2 secs later the lever is working fine (for an entry level tektro) could have been a nice easy quick bleed and saved myself an hour or so of stuffing around.