Posted by nospam on July 30, 2009, 2:55 pm
wow, how nice ABS is~
I grabbed a pretty good hard handful of front brakes today on a wet
road, and the tire never slipped a bit!
cool!
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Posted by Lame Duck on July 30, 2009, 5:02 pm
> wow, how nice ABS is~
> I grabbed a pretty good hard handful of front brakes today on a wet
> road, and the tire never slipped a bit!
Glad to hear you're happy with it. Have a drink on me. Is there a switch
where you can turn it completely off if you want to? (In case of a
malfunction.) Are the front and rear brakes linked, as they are on some
metric bikes?
Al
Posted by TL Mitchell on July 30, 2009, 6:30 pm
> Is there a switch where you can turn it completely off if you want to?
> (In case of a malfunction.)
You can pull the fuse.
>Are the front and rear brakes linked, as they are on some metric bikes?
Nope.
112
Posted by nospam on July 30, 2009, 8:31 pm
wrote:
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>> wow, how nice ABS is~
>>
>> I grabbed a pretty good hard handful of front brakes today on a wet
>> road, and the tire never slipped a bit!
>Glad to hear you're happy with it. Have a drink on me. Is there a switch
>where you can turn it completely off if you want to? (In case of a
not on this model, it always works never stops the tire hard enough to
make it slide........
>malfunction.) Are the front and rear brakes linked, as they are on some
>metric bikes?
on my BMW yes, but not the Panhead <evil grin>
>Al
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Posted by Bluffalobob on July 30, 2009, 11:11 pm
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:55:41 -0400, nospam@home.com wrote:
>wow, how nice ABS is~
>I grabbed a pretty good hard handful of front brakes today on a wet
>road, and the tire never slipped a bit!
>cool!
FYI, there is a new service bulletin out for the 09's with ABS, which
reduces the likelyhood of ABS activation when going over bumps or
washboard pavement.
http://www.box.net/shared/ra73k77ltm
> I grabbed a pretty good hard handful of front brakes today on a wet
> road, and the tire never slipped a bit!