ABS likely saved me today

[The Spaceman_imp]

Avoid even one minor accident with ABS and it pays for itself. Avoid an injury accident with it and it pays for your next bike.

[redbirds_imp]

Glad you were able to avoid an accident. ABS is a great feature. Mine does not have it but my wife's V-strom does. I want ABS on my next bike.

[nhawk7504_imp]

"I shoulder checked, and in that time the guy in front of me hammered on his brakes. I turned back and had just enough time pull on my front brake."- That's why I don't agree with shoulder checks in cars and on bikes. I use mirrors to let me know who is where and at what speed. I know shoulder checks are taught, but in heavy traffic I find there is not time. I watch people in the mirrors like a hawk. - Glad the ABS worked as well as it did. Indeed the front brakes are very powerful and in a panic stop they are almost too powerful. I used to be able to hammer both brakes on my Nighthawks with no trouble. But the CB11 has a lot more bite.

Avoid even one minor accident with ABS and it pays for itself. Avoid an injury accident with it and it pays for your next bike.

VERY TRUE! 30% safer per stats than non abs.

[Raderstar_imp]

Glad you was able to stop. Last friday doing 75mph on interstate like you following to close looked down at gps looked back up and traffic had stopped. Got the bike slowed down but not enough to miss car went to emergency lane and it had cars stopped in it too. Made the decision to go to the median. Lost bike there. I only tweaked my shoulder, but bike took some damage. Had to order new handle bars, headlight, headlight mounting bracket, and rear break leaver. Will have to live for now with dent in muffler and scratches on motor cover. Wish i had abs on bike when this happened. I may have been able to get her stopped.

[the Ferret]

Keep on mind that ABS only aids braking when traction is lost ( usually associated with skidding) by preventing the wheels from locking up

If at 60 mph it takes 150 feet for a bike equipped with ABS to come to a stop, if you only have 140 feet between you and the stopped object (the back of stopped car in traffic) ..well guess what. You are still going to hit that car.

As motorcyclists, our best chance of not getting in that situtaion is to leave plenty of " just in case" room between us and the car in front of us. Admittedly this is very hard to do, we accelerate so fast, they seem so slow, we tend to run up on them, but it is something we MUST learn to do if we want to avoid those rear end collisions, or the dead animal that suddenly appears from under the car in front of you, or the muffler, or the wooden skid that suddenly appears from under the truck in front of you. Believe me I am as guilty as the next motorcyclists and I work hard at remembering on every ride. I hate finding myself too close to a vehicle in front of me. Relying on ABS to save our bacon could in the end be a bad thing. Defensive driving is a better bet with ABS as a back up helper.

[cbdtran_imp]

I ride defensively, have 150 ft or more space around me. Once a while if I make some mistakes how small it is, I always reflect back and keep it in mind. Fall down on a motorcycle sucks big time and small mistakes are plenty.

One 71 yrs old rider told me he followed a sport car on long lonely desert highway at 160 MPH on a FZ1, someone waved at him, he waved back and the wind almost ripped off his arm. And he rode for 50 yrs with titanium rod in his leg

He told me, the chance of accident is the same as car .... but accident on motorcycle is nasty no matter the speed.

[AzBob_imp]

I'm torn on head-checks. I've done them and still almost run into people that must have slipped in as I moved my head back and flipped my blinker on. I ran over a semi's retread doing it once, too, which knocked the plastics loose on my CBR's lower fairing. Felt like I ran over a small bomb. In a car, I feel like they're necessary, but with my car's BSM system, they've become pretty superfluous. On the bike, I check, if for nothing else, other bikes who sometimes seem to slip in next to you because you're also a bike.

[grover_imp]

It's tough to leave that space cushion in heavy traffic, folks want to duck into that space any time there's more than 20-30 feet even if you're pacing traffic in front.


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[SanPete_imp]

Glad you was able to stop. Last friday doing 75mph on interstate like you following to close looked down at gps looked back up and traffic had stopped. Got the bike slowed down but not enough to miss car went to emergency lane and it had cars stopped in it too. Made the decision to go to the median. Lost bike there. I only tweaked my shoulder, but bike took some damage. Had to order new handle bars, headlight, headlight mounting bracket, and rear break leaver. Will have to live for now with dent in muffler and scratches on motor cover. Wish i had abs on bike when this happened. I may have been able to get her stopped.

Glad you only suffered a minor injury, although the bike wasn't as lucky.

It's tough to leave that space cushion in heavy traffic, folks want to duck into that space any time there's more than 20-30 feet even if you're pacing traffic in front.


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This is the most annoying practice cagers have. No matter how small that cushion is, they always want to squeeze in.

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[the Ferret]

Glad you was able to stop. Last friday doing 75mph on interstate like you following to close looked down at gps looked back up and traffic had stopped. Got the bike slowed down but not enough to miss car went to emergency lane and it had cars stopped in it too. Made the decision to go to the median. Lost bike there. I only tweaked my shoulder, but bike took some damage. Had to order new handle bars, headlight, headlight mounting bracket, and rear break leaver. Will have to live for now with dent in muffler and scratches on motor cover. Wish i had abs on bike when this happened. I may have been able to get her stopped.

Glad you only suffered a minor injury, although the bike wasn't as lucky.

It's tough to leave that space cushion in heavy traffic, folks want to duck into that space any time there's more than 20-30 feet even if you're pacing traffic in front.


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This is the most annoying practice cagers have. No matter how small that cushion is, they always want to squeeze in.

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You are right, that is annoying. They don't understand we NEED that cushion for our safety.