Jonboy, not patronising at all - good advice for me more than most!
What I didn't really convey very well previously is that neither of the two situations I experienced were in any way unusual or dangerous in their own right. I always expect cars to change lanes in front of me as it is not easy to spot a bike going fast. I expect it to happen twice, three times, four times in a row in fact. I leave more room than most any biker I know to cater for the unexpected. What I didn't expect is for the brakes to basically fail after two moderately hard applications.
In the second situation I was going faster than usual - 120 v 100, but I didn't really expect that the brakes would not be powerful enough to scrub off the higher speed when other bikes have no trouble doing so. I never expected the brakes on an SV to be ready for the racetrack and be able to do perfect stop after stop ad infinitum - just that they be as good as those on other vehicles that we share the road with.
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