For those of you (like me) who roll your eyes at the ABS on a Rocket III and feel one might as well disconnect it, here is a tale from this afternoon to share.
We had some fairly severe thunderstorms roll through and I had to get home from work.
I ride to and from work every day on either a Rocket III or a 1050 Tiger.
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On the way home, through this thunderstorm and wind gusts, there is an area of road construction.
Today being the day they are scheduled to resurface a stretch they have been working on for much of the year, work went ahead and by the time I got there,
the storm was washing all their gravel and mud onto the road strip we were using to get past the workmen.
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A road sweeper and tractor were trying their best to clear this as motorists drove past, directed by construction workers.
This of course never goes smoothly as people get impatient and my tonka truck driver ahead decided to slam his brakes on,
then swerve to the right to avoid his paintwork being chipped by the whirling steel-wire brush as it drove past us.
I hit the front brake on wet, muddy, loose gravel covered asphalt and watched the front forks bob up and down in the rain as the ABS kicked in.
The metzeler tire grabbed whatever it could and I managed to avoid rear-ending the pick up truck.
That's what ABS does in a nutshell, stops your wheel locking and 1,000 pounds of me, plus motorcycle is extremely grateful for that design
We had some fairly severe thunderstorms roll through and I had to get home from work.
I ride to and from work every day on either a Rocket III or a 1050 Tiger.
View media item 11199
On the way home, through this thunderstorm and wind gusts, there is an area of road construction.
Today being the day they are scheduled to resurface a stretch they have been working on for much of the year, work went ahead and by the time I got there,
the storm was washing all their gravel and mud onto the road strip we were using to get past the workmen.
View media item 11200
A road sweeper and tractor were trying their best to clear this as motorists drove past, directed by construction workers.
This of course never goes smoothly as people get impatient and my tonka truck driver ahead decided to slam his brakes on,
then swerve to the right to avoid his paintwork being chipped by the whirling steel-wire brush as it drove past us.
I hit the front brake on wet, muddy, loose gravel covered asphalt and watched the front forks bob up and down in the rain as the ABS kicked in.
The metzeler tire grabbed whatever it could and I managed to avoid rear-ending the pick up truck.
That's what ABS does in a nutshell, stops your wheel locking and 1,000 pounds of me, plus motorcycle is extremely grateful for that design
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