actually there is a very good video on this kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a7B9oJh2u8_KeYE.html And you do not lean while braking I'm afriad, you accelerate as you lean into the corner to keep the bike stable and moving forward without turning ur handle, just lean

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KimmyR3 A 50% power increase should make you faster unless it's 200 kilos more etc.

on a straight, yes. but overall time on a track? not always.

Yeah. I hear ppl talking about hating abs, because it's too invasive, but really, if you have good braking technique you wouldn't feel the abs kicking in like ever. Unless it's a hard emergence brake, and that's what the abs is for.

Not true, even on the road. If you're riding hard on a bumpy road (particularly if you use plenty of back brake), the less sophisticated systems simply can't cope. We shouldn't really be racing this Suzuki, it wasn't designed for this kind of abuse, but it copes well otherwise. We've taken the ABS fuse out in the past, but as well as giving us our brakes back, it screws up a lot of the other electronics.We're waiting for a black box from the non-ABS version in the hope that will sort the issue. For most road riders, the major advantage is not losing the front under heavy braking, or normal braking in tricky conditions. As one old-timer said to me recently, the only difference these days is that an ABS rider will still be on the bike when he hits whatever it was he was trying to miss. The non-ABS rider will still hit the obstacle, but he'll already have fallen off. You could, if you chose to, use ABS in world championship racing, but nobody does - the feel of a good rider is still way more nuanced than the best systems in the world.

What is not true, even on the road? Are you referring to what happens when ABS fails during a race? I have had a mate of a friend of mine that got his driving license on an ABS bike and rode an ABS bike for two years before he wanted to try my friends bike. It did not have ABS and guess what happens? He went down instantly. He never even learned how to brake properly, just squeeze the lever and stop. This can also happen when the ABS system fails... Dont get me wrong, technology is great and ABS on a road bike is good to have (I mean I am an electrical engineer so I would be one of the last people opposed to this) but to know how to brake well without ABS is crucial to being a good rider. And, just as cueball mentioned, almost every new rider that learned and rides an ABS bike does not know how to brake without ABS, for them it is just grab a fist full of brakes and trust the electronics...

I can tell you first hand MOST (not all ABS systems) are crap on the track. Far too intrusive and dangerous. My HP4 even on the lowest ABS setting would fight my lever input causing me to run wide. ABS is good for the street, crap for the track. With slicks and the amount of heat/grip you keep in a tire during a track day, you should never need ABS unless you don't have good feel.

You're right chaps, unfortunately the bike Harry's racing has ABS so the feature was just intended to show him he can safely brake much later. We've tried disabling the ABS on this Suzuki, but whatever we do ends up unintentionally screwing up some other electronic system. Hopefully we'll have a fix by the next round. At Harry's pace ABS isn't a problem, but for the rest of us it is - dangerous at times because it will chime in at the least expected moment, and can easily fire you into a corner with way too much speed. And of course using the back brake is a complete no-no 'cos that ties the whole system in knots. But half the 'fun' of our feature is to encourage more average riders and keen track-day riders to join this endurance championship, hence we're riding an 'unsuitable' bike just for giggles.