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Originally Posted by muffles
The one thing I got confused about when you were explaing it it yesterday was the amount of pressure transmitted through to the brakes.
I imagined that it would be that it would reduce the amount of braking pressure going to the brakes to the maximum level possible that would not cause a lock. That's where I thought the adage that ABS brakes will always stop the quickest came from.
But from what you were saying (about having to disengage and reapply anyway) it sounded like it would reduce the braking pressure going to the brakes to zero.
Did I misunderstand/am wrong/etc?
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As far as I am aware (on my Kwak, the new, 3 times plus more expensive system some manufacturers are using may be different) the rider sets the input level, the ABS just backs that off to zero if a lock is detected then re-applies to the input level set - so if that is high enough to cause it to kick again, it would
Example
Lock point is 80%
Rider hits brakes at 100%, ABS kicks in, you get a braking up to 80%, then nothing, the system backs it off to 0% and has another go, if you are still applying > 80% it will hit that and go through the cycle again until the input is < 80%.
As I said the OP is from experience/reasoning, and I accept I may be wrong in some of my conjectures, and I am happy to have those errors pointed out.