11-07-13, 02:45 PM
ABS simply stops the wheel from locking. How you much benefit that is to you depends on how good your breaking abilities are.
Valentino Rossi could probably stop the bike in a shorter distance without ABS then with it in most situations so if you think you are as good as Rossi, then it probably wouldn't help you.
Even if you don't think you are as good as Rossi, in a straightline breaking test (after some practice) you could probaly stop in the same distance with and without ABS.
Only when something unexpected happens in the real world, does ABS get the chance to do the only thing it does, which is to stop the wheel from locking. If that gives you the time and concentraion to worry about avoiding the thing that made you break, instead of concentrating on the breaking itself, then I would suggest that is a good thing.
Valentino Rossi could probably stop the bike in a shorter distance without ABS then with it in most situations so if you think you are as good as Rossi, then it probably wouldn't help you.
Even if you don't think you are as good as Rossi, in a straightline breaking test (after some practice) you could probaly stop in the same distance with and without ABS.
Only when something unexpected happens in the real world, does ABS get the chance to do the only thing it does, which is to stop the wheel from locking. If that gives you the time and concentraion to worry about avoiding the thing that made you break, instead of concentrating on the breaking itself, then I would suggest that is a good thing.