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Old September 8th, 2014, 03:26 PM   #1
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Practice emergency braking with ABS

All my previous bikes were non ABS. I normally practice going 35-40mph in large empty mall parking lots at night.

I realized with ABS, you can just grab! Instead of squeezing progressively. I'm sold! Of course I still squeeze instead of grab.

I'm glad I started my riding career w/o ABS. it does give me more confidence. But I would never trade braking skills for ABS.

I was able to lift the rear tire up pretty easily. And I do think the bike will endo if one didn't modulate braking force.

But it's definitely a good safety equipment to have IMHO.

It won't save you on corners. But I can see how this would be extremely beneficial if I had to slam on the brakes while on a straight road during a rainy day.
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Old September 8th, 2014, 03:38 PM   #2
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horrible habit to be in, I've only ever kicked the abs in while riding through snow and heavy rain even then I'm not sure if I'd have locked the front up completely I'd rather not know. I have a bad habit to lock the rear up a lot when I use it w/the front and abs fixes that lol

Back on track, grabbing a handful of brake instead of progressively braking can end badly. Luckily on a 300 you just lift the rear tire a bit and not much happens. What you really want to do is load the front suspension w/a little braking then hit the hard braking for optimal stopping power
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Old September 9th, 2014, 07:14 PM   #3
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I practice emergency braking more than I'd like, an usually not on purpose
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Old September 14th, 2014, 08:38 PM   #4
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The point of squeezing rather than grabbing is to slowly apply the stopping force to the wheel. This causes weight transfer to the front wheel, so there's more force of the tire to the road, allowing you to apply more braking force all the way through to the ground for stopping. If you grab the brake, there's less pressure on the front tire, so it takes less braking force to cause the wheel to lock up. Proper squeezing should still be only a fraction of a second, but easing into the brake rather than just jabbing it will cause the suspension to assist with stopping force.

I'm not sure how sophisticated the ABS on entry-level bikes is. I'm used to older automotive ABS, where it basically just watched for the wheel to stop when it should still be moving, and released the brake for you (all of this happening multiple times a second). If it's a similar basic system, you'll still want to maintain good squeezing technique to load the suspension and produce optimal stopping results, but you don't need to worry nearly as much about accidentally applying too much force and locking the wheel. If nothing else, it'll keep you from screwing up when you switch to a non-ABS bike.
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