old wanderer
05-04-2006, 08:01 PM
After reading a lot I purchased a set of Vesrah RJL front brake pads for my track bike. I have been pretty happy about the EBC HH pads and could lift my rear wheel with a steady pressure comming from a high speed straight to a corner.
Tuesday I did a few sessions at Thunderhill, and then when we stopped for lunch had Dave Moss change the oil in my forks...(What a difference in feel).
Since the calipers were just dangling while he worked on the forks I took a few minutes to slip in a new set of Vesrah RJL pads. Everyone had nothing but good things to say about these brakes.
I took a moderate lap around the track to warm up my slicks as I did not have the tire warmers on while we were working on the bike, and to seat in the brakes and feel the suspesion with the new oil. (You should change your fork oil every year) My had no viscosity left.
I came out of turn 15 and cranked it up and went arount the first 9 turns at a good clip, pulled my usualy wheelie comming out of turn 9 and ran to red line in 4th comming down the hill. I usually use maximum braking comming into turn 10, well without thinking I came up on the front brake like I usually would (2 fingers, pulling in progressively harder, so the front transfers the weight and the brake temp comes up).
Boy all of a sudden I've got the back wiggling all around, and then the front skids a bit as I back off the pressure. I'm at turn in speed for the corner, but I've got another 30'-40' to go to my turn in point...(Now I have to move my braking markers...darn it)
I tried the same thing comming into 14 where I usually trail brake a bit, but these brakes are the diffrence between having a car with manual brakes and power brakes, they take a lot less effort to get the same amount of braking power.
For the next day and a half I played with them, and found them to be very smooth and predictable, and perfect for those that just like to use 1 or 2 fingers to brake.
I give them 5 stars...
I was warned not to try them because they are so expensive, as they said once I had ridden with them, I would never buy anything else....
Proabably true...
I rode a little spint race yesterday, and came down that same downhill stretch between turn 9 and 10 and passed 4 bikes on the inside that were braking earlier (or softer) than myself with the power still on, and left them wondering "who was that old guy".
They never caught me again.
Tuesday I did a few sessions at Thunderhill, and then when we stopped for lunch had Dave Moss change the oil in my forks...(What a difference in feel).
Since the calipers were just dangling while he worked on the forks I took a few minutes to slip in a new set of Vesrah RJL pads. Everyone had nothing but good things to say about these brakes.
I took a moderate lap around the track to warm up my slicks as I did not have the tire warmers on while we were working on the bike, and to seat in the brakes and feel the suspesion with the new oil. (You should change your fork oil every year) My had no viscosity left.
I came out of turn 15 and cranked it up and went arount the first 9 turns at a good clip, pulled my usualy wheelie comming out of turn 9 and ran to red line in 4th comming down the hill. I usually use maximum braking comming into turn 10, well without thinking I came up on the front brake like I usually would (2 fingers, pulling in progressively harder, so the front transfers the weight and the brake temp comes up).
Boy all of a sudden I've got the back wiggling all around, and then the front skids a bit as I back off the pressure. I'm at turn in speed for the corner, but I've got another 30'-40' to go to my turn in point...(Now I have to move my braking markers...darn it)
I tried the same thing comming into 14 where I usually trail brake a bit, but these brakes are the diffrence between having a car with manual brakes and power brakes, they take a lot less effort to get the same amount of braking power.
For the next day and a half I played with them, and found them to be very smooth and predictable, and perfect for those that just like to use 1 or 2 fingers to brake.
I give them 5 stars...
I was warned not to try them because they are so expensive, as they said once I had ridden with them, I would never buy anything else....
Proabably true...
I rode a little spint race yesterday, and came down that same downhill stretch between turn 9 and 10 and passed 4 bikes on the inside that were braking earlier (or softer) than myself with the power still on, and left them wondering "who was that old guy".
They never caught me again.