After everything I heard I was fully expecting the HPS pads to jump out of the box and give me a blow job and cake. Instead, they really don't have that much bite until they get stomped on hard from speed and then it goes away as soon as they start heating up. But I got a set of PBR/Axxis metal masters on the way since the HPS pads have been cut down just about to their wear markers in the past 8 months so we'll see how it goes.