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Originally Posted by PhiSig1071
It's funny you ask that because I just got to ride the CBR with ABS in the rain on monday. A buddy of mine works at a shop that was doing a big tent sale and I helped them set-up (got paid to ride bikes to the sale all day thursday/friday) and break-down (ride them back on monday). It was raining monday and I got to ride the CBR ABS in the rain (along with about 25 other bikes, including a VTX1800 and a B-king!).
My take? The bike felt exactly like the regular CBR while riding, you couldn't really notice the extra 20 some odd lbs that she was carrying. Under braking I could NOT make the tires lock, and trust me, I tired. I was going about 35mph in a exit lane for a parking lot and literally slammed the rear brake and all that happened was the bike slowed down very rapidly. I did hard braking from 75mph to a stoplight in the rain and I could feel the very edge where the tires *should* start sliding, added a little extra brake pressure, and the bike just kept right on slowing down like somebody tied it to a tree. I was damned impressed.
I swear I could feel the ABS kick in, but not in a really noticable or obtrusive way. No change in pressure on the lever and absolutely no surging feeling that is common to ABS systems, but I swear I could feel it. Maybe it was because I had a good idea of where the tire should start to slide and it didn't, and I thought that was what I felt, so it could have been all in my head.
Overall? Very impressed, if you want ABS on a supersport then that bike is the way to go. Bazzaz makes an FI set-up for the bike that includes traction control, get that and a slipper and you'll never lose traction again! (But what's the fun in that?!  ) |
I read a review a couple months back... they said basicly the same thing as above... the one thing I found interesting is they took the NON ABS version... and had both an experienced rider and a unexperienced rider try to see how fast they could stop on both models...
after 16 trys... the ABS version stopped faster and shorter than any trys of either rider. the first try for both riders had the ABS verison stop 15' shorter!
the last try had the experienced rider stop 1' shorter on the ABS version than the non... and the unexperienced rider stopped 4' shorter.
4' is easily the difference between a wreck and a near miss... but even that was after 15 OTHER trys that were much greater distance...
I really wish I could find where I read that... very good article.