ABS - just saved my life!

[nleader]

Why do I have an ABS-equipped bike?

It's a simple reason really. I'm an experienced rider and instructor, qualified to train other people at all levels, including advanced. (Yeah, I know, whoopee-do for me, right?)

I know how to do the perfect emergency stop and I teach others how to do the same. (Although I'd never consider myself to be a Riding God, more of a constantly-looking-to-improve sort of chap).

BUT.. in a real emergency all that training and skill goes out of the window 50% of the time and I'll grab too much brake too soon, just like almost everyone else. Result? Skid and crash.

With ABS, no skid and I might even stop in time. And that's why I have an ABS-equipped bike.

Norman

 

[Llama]

Okay so its like this:

ABS is sh*t anyone who has it is a crap rider unable to think for themselves and totally reliant on a flawed system that will fail at some point and kill them.

Although for some people it has saved their lives so its not totally sh*t, just a bit sh*t.

Then again there are an awful lot of ABS equipped vehicles about where the ABS hasn't broken and killed them so maybe its only a little bit sh*t.

Of course if you ride defensively look ahead and consider that everyone is out to get you, you dont need ABS so its is sh*t,

But if you ride like a god and someone really is out to get you, ABS might be handy so its only a teeny weeny bit sh*t.

And it really came in handy the other day when that w*nker changed lanes mid-roundabout in front of me. So maybe its not sh*t at all.

In fact its actually quite a good idea.

Or maybe not.

In the end who cares, if you like it buy it. If you dont like it dont buy it. When those who want it start forcing those who dont to have it then start complaining.

In the mean time can we talk about the weather or something this topic is boring now.







PS: I have ABS but I'm getting help at a focus group.

 

[Steptoe]

Okay so its like this:

Then again there are an awful lot of ABS equipped vehicles about where the ABS hasn't broken and killed them so maybe its only a little bit sh*t.

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The above paragraph only includes bikes with servo brakes, not normal ABS . Thank you .

 

[nadeem]

The above paragraph only includes bikes with servo brakes, not normal ABS . Thank you .

Too late...about 15 GS (Non Servo) went into various hedges & assorted shrubbery trying out your 'technique'...you do have that public liability insurance?

 

[Sergeant Pluck]

These ABS threads just don't seem to be able to stop, do they?

 

[Llama]

These ABS threads just don't seem to be able to stop, do they?

Thats probably because the servo has failed

 

[Pint6x]

When BMW first introduced ABS brakes it was on the K100RS.

They invited lots of journalists over to Germany to try the ABS system.

They had ABS-equipped and non-ABS equipped bikes.

One of the American journalists decided that he could "beat" the ABS-equipped bikes with a non-ABS-equipped bike. Off they went, side-by-side into a patch of wet tarmac.

Result was American Journalist locked the front wheel and fell off.

I wouldn't buy a car or bike which didn't have ABS - it's saved my bacon once on the bike and a couple of times in a car.

 

[Piggers]

Yeah... but what if my servo failed at the same time as my bottom yoke pinch bolts fell out, it may do me a favour by preventing the front end from twisting due the the excessive forces put on the front end and thereby save my life......

 

[Paul Wakefield]

Yeah... but what if my servo failed at the same time as my bottom yoke pinch bolts fell out, it may do me a favour by preventing the front end from twisting due the the excessive forces put on the front end and thereby save my life......

You're forgetting that you've also cut through the ABS sensor wire thus giving you no brakes at all.