ABS on touring or chopper style bike has got to be all good on a race bike I am not that sure at the moment. I did ride a honda ST with ABS and traction control cant really say I noticed to much difference
Are the GP riders using it ?
ABS on touring or chopper style bike has got to be all good on a race bike I am not that sure at the moment. I did ride a honda ST with ABS and traction control cant really say I noticed to much difference
Are the GP riders using it ?
Dumbest quote by a biker than done half a million miles!
You can go a million miles and never use ABS.
You can be the most skilled ruder and never use ABS.
But there comes a time when it needed, it only happens once in a million skilled miles. It saved your bacon. You may not know or notice it. Since ABS only worked for a fraction of a second, yet it was enough to keep out of hospital or sliding under Somchai's pickup,
The accident I had with my truck would most probably not have happened had I bought the ABS model.
ABS is about having directional control whilst under maximum brakinng.
if your front wheel(s) are locked and skidding they cannot steer.
Baldrick
well done for understanding abs
Falling asleep and waking up is not the same as passing out and coming to.
haven't owned a bike with abs, but ridden a few, and I'd say yes if it is an option on a new bike
first exp at a BMW demo day, held on a go-kart track in the rain, tight corners, off the track was about 1m loose gravel strip then infield/outer of track in wet grass.
The bmw bloke gave demos of basically standing on the back brake at speed on all three surfaces. Then trying to lock the front. Yes I know a bike rider won't do this but it was to show how abs worked ie not locking the wheel/s.
Four us mere mortals we got to do braking tests on the straight using front, rear, then both and marking with cones, then same on abs bike. ABS better every time (remember this was wet in steady rain, I'd say an exp rider would be about the same on a good dry surface)
ABS won't save you on oil, or snow etc.
Training, and experience will.
If you're riding a big enough bike to warrent abs then you should;'t need it.
You should have trained yourself sufficiently.
Farang die in Pattaya cos they rent bikes they don't know how to ride.
Fireblades etc.
From what I've read here and elsewhere all the people who say you don't need it talk like it somehow affects the bike all the time. Skill, training and experience will save you on an ABS or non ABS regardless. A good (or possibly lucky) rider will never use it at all, 99.9% of riding will be just the same as non abs, you can brake just the same as a non abs bike. But that one time a scooter pulls out of a soi without looking or a dog runs out it may just keep you upright and pull you up quicker than if you didn't have it.
The facts are out there for all to see.
I would hopefully never use it but if it saves me once in 10 years it is worth having then isn't it.
Thailand is full of stories of people sliding down the road alongside their bikes. Good, experienced riders just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Daltons accident springs to mind.
Fahn Cahn's
you sound like you are full of shitOriginally Posted by the dogcatcher
Originally Posted by dirtydog
I didn't!
But then again most of my competative racing WAS speedway and grasstrack solo !
Roadracing was mainly with a sidecar as well and drifting was essential
Never had ABS on a bike but my latest crotch-rocket is a mighty Airblade !
First bike with linked brakes and I like it at the gentle speeds I potter around at .
I have noticed however that I rely on the rear brake and the linked system - hardly ever use the front brake lever and the consumption of rear brake shoes is heavy - on my third set after 16,500 km.
Does this happen on bigger bikes?
Can the ratio between pressure to front / rear brakes be adjusted ?
Have only experienced ABS on big scooters (Burgman / T Max) and it compensated well with the smaller wheels - they do tend to lock up much quicker on bikes that are not so manouverable - would recommend it.
On a real bike - take it or leave it - it's the attitude, alertness and skill of the rider that counts.
I have only 25 years riding and owned 30 bikes with 5 in shed. So I guess that makes you right.
My bad
abs is for people that can't ride
Mr custard has it.
Abs will save you 0.01% of the time.
Experience, skill and training will take care for the rest of the time.
5 years ago I was in Phatong, I when for a ride on a fiends 125.
I when over the mountain to Phuket Town.
On the way back it started to rain on the way up the mountain that was OK.
Get to the top it was only very light rain, on the way down to Phatong.
I was going very slow a pickup coming beside me, I could feel the was starting to slip out from under me, the pickup started to do 360.
On a left sharp bend there is a motorbike laying on the road, I put my feet on the road two get back up right & the bend with out get clean up by the pickup
or the on coming traffic .
I will never go over that mountain when it is raining & If I was riding a big bike ?
That's why it is worth having it.Originally Posted by the dogcatcher
You may only need it 0.01%, 000000.1%, 1% but if you have it, it may save your life and so it is worthwhile having.
Why would Kawasaki fit it as standard on their 2010 ER6N / Ninja 650's if it was useless?
Why would Honda install it on their new Fireblade if it was useless?
I bet they would put it on everybike, just peoples resistance to new technology.
DD,
Au contraire I think the French say.
Here in BKK driving a bike on wet roads is like riding on ice. It can be very scary. I think apply the brakes enough for ABS to come into play would already be too late.
To answer the OP if they come with ABS OK. I would only be concerned if it started to apply itself during "normal" riding. Whether Kawasaki ABS is any good or not? Who knows.
Better to think inside the pub, than outside the box?
I apologize if any offence was caused. unless it was intended.
You people, you think I know feck nothing; I tell you: I know feck all
Those who cannot change their mind, cannot change anything.
How would it apply itself during normal riding???Originally Posted by VocalNeal
This is the thing, people think it is some intrusive thing that will affect the brakes during normal use.
It will only work when you are in a situation where the wheels will become locked up, it just stops the wheels from locking up!
That's not normal riding!
Jeez!
It is if you're out with Rigger.Originally Posted by Bung
^ My arse did look a tad big in those race leathers, I put it down to just a bad tailoring job.
Some more info on this subject:
Video:
Verdandi Concept Motorcycle
Institute researchers compared the fatal crash experience of antilock-equipped motorcycles against their nonantilock counterparts during 2003-08. The main finding is that motorcycles with antilocks versus without are 37 percent less likely to be in fatal crashes per 10,000 registered vehicle years. Bolstering this finding is a separate analysis by the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI), an affiliate of the Insurance Institute. HLDI analyzed insurance claims filed for crash damage to motorcycles. Bike models with antilocks have 22 percent fewer claims for crash damage per insured vehicle year (a vehicle year is 1 vehicle insured for 1 year, 2 insured for 6 months, etc.) than the same models without antilocks. The results update earlier studies by the Institute and HLDI published in 2008. In 2009 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that it was looking at the issue in light of the Institutes earlier study but stated that an additional year of data and additional analyses are needed to determine the statistical significance of the results.
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
HST
I don't think they are worth but maybe they are useful on 4 wheels.
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