They're bastards for that. It's almost like they think they're going to win!

hooray for a.b.s... cant say i have ever ridden a bike fitted with it but like yourself...i would have been very thankfull for its help...

personally...after having a black cat shoot across my path when i was on way to work early one morning aged about 20 on me 250 gamma..and i was all locked up and skidding and swerving towards a solid road sign on the pavement about 50 mph... but i have ridden off road since i was 10 and done moto x.... this helped me release brakes at last moment and save it.....

since then...... i ALWAYS just brake as hard as possible and continue straight without losing control.... if i hit it...i hit it...bike takes all the impact and
i survive intact..... and 99 times out of 100 you will miss the flippin animal coz their reactions are much quicker than our's ....

Glad you are in one piece.
It is a horrible moment when you think "OK, is that thing in front going to hurt more than that thing behind?"
You have to know what is back there because it is sure as hell too late to check now.

I still find it hard to let the ABS worry about the grip and completely drop the anchor and not let off.

It's quite sobering that even though I ride with as much concentration and hazard perception as I can muster, the possibility of an animal suddenly running into the road is probably the last thing I consider, until now that is, after the descriptions of how much damage can be caused by an impact. Thanks for all the posts on this, I don't have ABS as Yamaha don't seem to want to supply it for the Tmax in the UK. This may be the only reason my next scoot is a Honda, Suzuki or BMW.

chrisp, within months you will notice all scooters and bike over 125cc will have ABS brakes. It's in readiness for the new european laws on 'not killing ourselves'! Whilst I've never felt I needed or wanted ABS, I simply can't argue against it in any way now. It really takes an experience like I had yesterday to drive it home I guess...especially when I think back to exactly what happened. However I analyse it, I think the worst would have happened without ABS. As it is, my nice shiny Burgman is sitting, still nice and shiny in the garage with an untainted record and no harm done at all. Wow! I'm still gob smacked at how the bike did it. And to think I nearly bought the standard model without ABS. The ABS wasn't actually the main attraction when I ordered her. It was the heated grips, hand guards, passenger backrest that I was more interested in, with ABS coming as an almost unwanted extra. How wrong I was to look at it that way.

This rider wasn't so lucky.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... 60mph.html

ABS is why I've bought Peugeots since 2002. Until not so long ago only Pugs had ABS on smaller capacity scoots. Which is why it is now bizarre that as others move to rolling it out, Peugeot do not sell a single model with ABS in the UK.

So maybe my next new scooter will be a Piaggio instead. 3X morons.