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Originally Posted by Alex
For a year or two in the early 2000's, some BMW's had linked brakes where if you stepped on the rear pedal, it would engage both the rear and some front brake. (If you used the front brake, it would engage some rear brake as well). It was widely panned, as hitting the rear pedal at low speeds for slow corners as some riders tend to do, evidently caused plenty of low speed drops when the front wheel was suddenly braked unexpectedly as well. The next generation kept linked brakes, but only front to rear (pulling the lever engaged the front and a bit of rear, pressing the pedal only engaged the rear). From that Rider Magazine article, it does sound like the Honda would engage the front when only the pedal was pressed, but only in extreme situations where the rear is already locked.
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IIRC they often broke, and with the high cost to fix them, many owners removed the ABS and just ran them as non-ABS brakes.