ABS likely saved me today

[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.