ABS

["Jack Holloway" <jackh233@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I guess you may be right Steve, but if ABS is gods gift to motorcycles why
don't they all use it as well as cars?


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Jack Holloway      MOA #64755        Ham Call    KB4PVC
Leesburg, FL
http://www.jcholloway.com
2000 R1100 RT

- -----Original Message-----
From: Steve Makohin [mailto:wateredg@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 21:53
To: oilheads@xxxxxxxxx; jackh233@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: ABS

Hello,

Jack Holloway wrote:


>I have ridden motorcycles for 40 years and the first 36 of them were bikes
> without ABS, mostly BMW's.
> I never had a problem, so if the problem is the ABS controller at $1500 I
> will go back to ridding without ABS as I do when it faults.

Ain't that sort o' like buying a $700 helmet because you know how important
a brain bucket is, dropping it on your driveway, an' figurin' that you'll go
without rather than replace it because you've never had a spill in almost 40
years of riding?

- -Steve Makohin*
 '01 R1100S/ABS
 Oakville, Ontario, Canada


*Ducking, and running like a madman.

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