Kids, listen to this man. :) When I was newbie, I didn't downshift and was instead keeping the brakes lightly pressed. After a few mins of this, when I pressed

Kids, listen to this man. :) When I was newbie, I didn't downshift and was instead keeping the brakes lightly pressed. After a few mins of this, when I pressed them a little harder to slow down more (at a turn), the pedals sickeningly went way more than they were supposed to. Remembered in a flash what had happend. Thankfully, I was able to pull over and let the brakes cool a bit. The brake fluid had overheated and turned into a compressible liquid (if you remember your Pascal's Law (iirc), hydraulics can only work if the fluid is nearly incompressible).