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Originally Posted by kdogg2077
I can't help but think a lot of this hate for abs stems from riders too pround to admit they might need a "rider aid" or additional saftey tools.
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If someome has personally experienced a downside (as Aufitt did, albeit riding on the track under race conditions) I'll believe him.
Anyone who has no direct experience of such is just blowing smoke.
But yeah... for the average street rider out in the real, non-track world, there is no reason not to have it IMHO.
Thing is, devices like this do make people lazy, just as calculators created generations of people who can't do arithmetic in their head. Next time you go to the store and pay with cash, watch the cashier make change -- they'll look at the register to see how much it is, because they're incapable of doing the simple sum in their head.
I actually keep a slide rule on my desk and use it all the time, for the mental exercise. (Note to anyone under 55: You don't know what this is. Look it up. It's what engineers used to design the SR-71 and the rockets that took us to the moon.)