10-07-2017, 03:12 AM
(10-06-2017, 10:10 AM)nhawk7504_imp Wrote: I like ABS for this reason and when I went down on my 250 I could have used it, but, sometimes these drivers leave no time. I think we need bright clothes and helmets and bikes. We have to be like Christmas trees. People pull out on front of CARS, never mind bikes. They mis judge or don't care, "I'll make it". I liked my CB500F because you could just bugger onto the brakes and hammer the thing if need be and then get back on the gas and scoot around some tool who pulled in front of you, and I had to do just that on occasion. It was light so I could just slam it.
I liked my CB500XA for the same reason. I had a woman speed up from behind me in the other lane of a highway and turn right at me because she was going to miss her exit. From 100 KPH to a dead stop. ABS and a lighter bike saved my butt.
I ride the back roads. It was routine for me to have to make a hard stop when animals ran out of the bush in front of me: wild turkeys, countless deer, and a black bear. Something about the sound of the CB500XA made them panic.
Oddly enough I don't have the same problem with the CB1100 EX. Maybe the quieter motor and louder mufflers keep them away?
When I rode in the 60s, 70s and 80s farm dogs would run to the bottom of the laneway to chase you. Oddly enough I have not had that happen on either bike over the last 4 years.