ABS: Good, or Bad?

[dBuster_imp]

This thread is getting interesting

One thing that was not mentioned is testing your bike. Its good practice once your brakes are broken in to try these emergency stops and test your bike in a controlled situation whether you have ABS or non ABS. I usually go to a local corporation where there's no traffic and get use to the braking system on a new bike. I want to know if the brakes will lift the rear wheel before it locks up, what the stopping distance is and how the bike reacts to full lock up of the rear wheel. Nothing prepares you more than practice and knowing your bike.

I agree with cip57, whether abs or non abs, getting to know your bike and it's limits is the key.

That bolded but that Guth shared to me I read it that they were teaching the bikes and racing into hair pin turns. How many of us will actually race into a hair pin curve/turn? I enter turns knowing what my bike can do with my controls and do not push entering or exiting turns.

It is once again personal preference and getting to know your bike with either abs or non abs is the key.

Reminds me of the thread where there appeared to be issues with the rear brake not locking up or stopping our bikes... But then I remember my non abs 1100 would stop better than a bike I test rode with abs... That test ride had me questioning the brakes on that bike whether they were sufficient... Now maybe the abs wasn't the issue in that bike but it could have been, we don't know.

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