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Having had many cars and motorcycles with and without ABS, I find it to be helpful in a car, not so much on a motorcycle.
There are plenty of other electronic rider aids I rather see on motorcycles first. My current bike has lift (wheelie control), slide control, ABS, electronically controlled suspension, launch control, traction control, power delivery control, etc. All of it can be adjusted via a display on the dash to fit the riding requirements of the moment. If I had to pick one thing to give up, it would be the ABS. I've never come closing to crashing during hard braking, but I have had some scary moments after grabbing too much throttle.
Having had many cars and motorcycles with and without ABS, I find it to be helpful in a car, not so much on a motorcycle.
There are plenty of other electronic rider aids I rather see on motorcycles first. My current bike has lift (wheelie control), slide control, ABS, electronically controlled suspension, launch control, traction control, power delivery control, etc. All of it can be adjusted via a display on the dash to fit the riding requirements of the moment. If I had to pick one thing to give up, it would be the ABS. I've never come closing to crashing during hard braking, but I have had some scary moments after grabbing too much throttle.
There are situations where you could greatly benefit by having ABS, which can be seen in this video:
LMAO... no educated rider grabs a handful of front brake AND leans to the side when the roads are soaking wet. The spin looked 100% intentional thanks to the lean, and thus no attempt at actually modulating the brakes manually. The approach looked Completely different in the "with ABS" section, no lean to the right being the major indicator (eh, because you don't DO that!).
Note that I'm *not* saying that ABS is bad. I'm saying that video looked staged to give the biggest reaction and the differences between with ABS and without are probably very minimal for Any rider who does Any kind of continuing training. IMHO, riders who don't continue their education deserve to be weeded out.... but I'm an old curmudgeon too.
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