| I had standard 4 pot goldlines on my ST with a set of bendix pads and they were excellent brakes, loads of feel and lots of stopping power.
Then I got seduced by the bling fairy and fell for a set of P34 stoppers that were on eBay dead cheap. I cleaned them up, put them straight on (the pads had plenty of meat on them) bled them through and went for a ride.
The brakes felt awful. Wooden, no feel and far less effective than my original brakes and they stayed that way for the first 100-150 miles.
Then the pads (standard brembo ones) bedded in and the brakes suddenly became awesome. I finally understood why everyone raved about them because they are unbelievably powerful but with huge amounts of feel as well, almost as if you can feel every last drop of braking power and you can tell exactly when the wheel is about to lock. You can do all this with two finger braking (my preference) and a nice firm lever using the standard master cylinder, so I would say ride it a bit more and I'd be surprised if pretty soon you don't find yourself saying "jeez, these brakes are awesome".
BTW: I disagree with Dickie, I find that if I've got total confidence on the brakes I can use a much, much deeper braking marker and keep the throttle pinned for longer  |