V-Max 2 Busa
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OK last night I read a post that said today was "National Ride To Work Day" but I keep all my bikes at the shop so today when I got to the shop I made it "National Ride Instead Of Work Day". I enjoyed several hours riding around the Sierra Foothills up past Shingle Springs toward Placerville/Tahoe. Today was perfect weather for a ride, somewhat cloudy until late afternoon so it wasn't blazin hot with the leather and all. Everything was going great until I got back into town, it was around 5:00 pm so I took some side streets as to avoid rush hour traffic. I approached a red light at a very large intersection, (3 lanes of traffic each direction with additional 2 designated left turn lanes), I lane split past 5 cars or so to get to the front so I ain't suckin car exhaust, Now I'm sittin at the red light waiting for the green so that I can jump out front to clear the 2 cars I'm in between, in the meantime I'm watching traffic flow from the 2 designated left turn lanes from opposite direction, OK all left turners are gone and my light turns green so I jump on it, well at this time I notice some moron from the fast lane opposite direction traffic decides that he want to make a left instead of goin straight and that's what he does (Right In Front Of Me), Crap!!!! he finally notices what he has done and now he stomps on the brakes, so now not only is he blocking my path but he is sliding sideways headed straight for me, keep in mind I have just let out the clutch and grabbed a hand full of first gear, CRAP!!!!! I swear I thought I was goin straight into the side of that old Chevy Pick-Up, Also keeping in mind that this Busa is my first sport bike and have not even put 500 miles on it yet I'm still not entirelly confident in my ability or fimaliarity of the handling of this machine (it's not like I could just pitch it sideways like I would instinctively do on my CR 250, this an entirely different animal, know what I mean?) Anyhow thinking I'm gonna slam my beautiful Busa into this truck I grabbed a handful of front brake and probably stood on the rear, locked up both wheels and skidded up to the truck literally no more than 1" from colliding into the truck. Well the old fart just slowly drove away watching me shake my finger at him, no not that one, just the index finger, he needed a good scolding not to be told to f off. Don't you just love those left turners? My Busa has like 7,000 miles with original brake pads & lines, brakes feel kinda soft so I was extremely surprised as to how quickly I did stop in a panic situation but I still think I'm gonna get some better pads and SS lines.
) So.... you locked up both brakes from too much braking force... and you want pads and lines that will give you more powerful brakes?
