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  • Ron1957
    Ron1957
    12 years ago

     

     ABS. To have or not.
    The brother rang and asked should he get abs on his new Triumph.  It appears his dealer told him it is a waste of time and money and you can stop a bike faster without it. 
    Unfortunately that is most likely true.  BUT
    I had abs on my ST1100 and went out for a play, so thinking I was on a light weight sports bike (and 30 years younger) with my knee hanging out, I was hooking through some twisty’s and set up for this big sweeping and banked left hand corner only to find someone asshole had turned it into a “T” intersection, and just for fun had covered it with gravel.  I stayed upright, wrong side of the road and needing a change of undies but upright.
    So I told him to get it as it has only to save you once. He rang the next day to thank me.
    With 45km on his nice new bike and once again thinking he was 20 years old instead of 50, the car to his right lost control and shot across in front of him hitting the guard rail and bounced back out in front of him. With a big panic stab on the rears and a fist full of front he managed to stop.  He said he felt the rear let go and thought fark, this is gunna hurt, then the brakes started to shudder and next thing he had stopped.
     
    You don’t need ABS until you need ABS.
  • groover
    groover
    12 years ago
    Well 3 weeks ago I as travelling along on my 08 Roadking with brembo brakes when a P plate moron jumped out in front of me from a give way sign. Hit the brakes which locked up (no ABS) as we hit the car. Felt my 21 yr old son leaving his seat as my face hit the windshield and over the bars myself. Scary sight seeing the underside of your motor /gearbox as the bike is flipping over and luckily avoiding me.

    The bike is a write off and son and I are laid up with broken bones in various places.

    I know wonder if I may have been able to avoid all of this if the bike had ABS.

    Go the ABS.
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