A little while ago I had a weird brake failure. Coming into a nasty downhill right-hander I suddenly had no front brake. Fortunately I was not going too hard and slowed down enough with the rear. Frantic pumping and the front came back. I stopped and checked but couldn't see anything wrong. I thought it must have been an ABS glitch. However over the next few days I noticed the front was grabby coming to a stop and then I noticed some metal swarf on the rotor.
It turned out the friction material had come off one of the pads. Pumping the brakes had brought the backing plate back up to the rotor and restored function. Just under 8000 miles on the OEM Brembo pads. EBC HH are now installed. I have worn through pads before but never had one fail like this. Food for thought. If genuine Brembo pads can do this what about the cheapo shite you can get?
, thankfully just after i stopped at the traffic lights and .plink, the outer pad material hit the rim..
as you could be over heating the bonding that holds the pads to the steel back plate if you're letting them get really low. 
although I'm not suggesting either of you do that 
