Absolutely! If you need ABS, you shouldn't ride anything more powerful than a bicycle....
That is not the intent of ABS...
ABS is only used in emergency braking and rarely used (hopefully).
Kinda like buying insurance, you hope you never have to use it.
ABS is a safety feature not a crutch.
Threshold braking will out stop ABS by a few feet on dry, clean, oil and water free surface. Threshold braking on a less than clean dry surface cannot be achieved.
Remember what keeps a motorcycle upright. The gyroscopic effect
At speed a motorcycle will remain relatively stable as long as both wheels are turning, when one or both are locked even for a short period of time, a huge amount of instability is induced.
A rider cannot release the brakes and re-apply at the standard ABS rate of 6 times a second.
I recently trained on ABS on both dry and wet surfaces.
At 55mph grabbed all the front and rear brake I could, never letting off. It takes several runs at slower speeds to pull the front brake lever as hard as you can. Natural tendency is to release it at the first sign of a lock up.
I would never do it on a NON ABS motorcycle. The result would have been ugly.
Ride an ABS bike equipped motorcycle on several types of surfaces and then decide.
The future is here and ABS will be a standard safety feature on motorcycles.
Just like fuel injection was... many did not want it, now it is generally standard and accepted.
