Would you want ABS on a bike?

[STRAMASHER]

Maybe Honda have come up with a new GOOD ABS system as from what I have learned is that the ABS on bikes the noo is rubbish. I want something that will still chirp the front tyre. I want something that does not get confused at any speed on a mildly bumpy road and accelerate you into a corner/ back of a car.

The more budget the bike the worse the system too I'll bet.

So its a mibees from me.

If I was buying a bike and there was an option to have ABS, I would take it....but if the model I was buying didn't have ABS then I wouldn't be so fussed

For example, if I wanted a GSXR600 I would buy it (no ABS option), but if i was buying the CBR600, I'd wait and take the one with the ABS option (its coming, according to MCN). I'm pretty alright at braking, but you can't always be prepared for when the front wheel locks up...for example, if you cant see where there is a damp patch when you have just gone into a shaded part of teh road on a really sunny day

I was going to vote yes, as I am a n00b so this could save my neck - but then I thought, maybe if I rely on ABS I'd not learn to brake properly, so when the ABS packs up I'll get caught out and slide off into the sunset.
I learnt to drive in non-ABS cars so I (almost) never trigger it, but I like knowing its there.

[Ch00]

I have ABS on the Wee Strom and it works fine. I have felt it kick in on the rear wheel but never on the front.

I have ridden a BMW F650GS with ABS and that was pants it seemed to cut in too early and take too long to sort it self out to the point where it felt like you had no brakes.

ABS is a good thing if it works well!!!

Ch00

[jambo]

I have ridden 2 ABS bikes thus far (2007 Hornet, 2008 Z750). The ABS makes no difference at all until you poke it with a big stick. On both bikes I came up to a set of traffic lights with poor surface at low speed and just grabbed a handful, confident that I could control a front end slide at that speed. In both cases it braked normally until the slide was just beginning and then released the brakes. This feels very weird, but it's what I'd have done anyway.

I'd have it on my next bike, no qualms about it at all.

Jambo

I wonder how hard it out be to retrofit ABS to my SV?

Originally Posted by northwind

I want ABS I can turn off, for trackdays and the like. But yeah, good ABS, I would personally give a nut for.

What Northy said, turn-offable ABS would be nice, so long as it works well.

I wouldnt' say no to traction control either. Anything that can save you from an off is a good thing in my book.

Well ABS works on a sensor, so it should be easy to put a switch in to turn it off.

Originally Posted by Grinch

Well ABS works on a sensor, so it should be easy to put a switch in to turn it off.

On Vstrom's they take the ABS fuse off , others add a switch inline with the fuse.

Originally Posted by dotted

On Vstrom's they take the ABS fuse off , others add a switch inline with the fuse.

Nice and easy then.