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you know the old maxim good brakes make you go faster so learning about ABS at the Marin speed shop makes sense ABS anti-lock brakes have been universal on cars i mean literally since the 2012 model year but turns out motorcycles are picking up the technology at a very rapid pace now ABS on a bike works very similarly to the way it works on a car let's look at the apparatus this ring right here with these holes punched in it is rotating with the wheel obviously and this little detector back here is looking for a very smooth rhythmic passing of those holes if that changes that is telling the abs pump and computer that it detects some stutter when there's a skid then the pump begins to modulate pressure up here to the caliper the whole idea is to back off a little bit in little micro slices until you've got traction again and then put the pressure back on in those respects ABS is very similar to the way it is on cars where it differs a lot is in the ways you can set it up as a writer for that matter the fact you can set it up at all settings like these let you grab preset driving modes with varying levels of abs or you can dial that in specifically from level 3 all the way down to off and remember bikes differ from cars in that they have two discrete brake systems one for each wheel okay some numbers our partners at State Farm tell us the research indicates up to thirty one percent fewer fatalities on bikes that have abs highway lost data institute says up to twenty three percent fewer collision claims from those machines now but the best numbers i can find indicate that around a hundred models of motorcycles industry-wide have a BS standard or optional but here's an interesting trend look at this ducati 1199 2012 that bike had ABS optional 2013 it's now standard and on bikes where ABS is a discrete option expect to pay somewhere close to or at a thousand dollars the highway lost data institute and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety have petitioned Nitsa the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require a new rule that says every new bike sold in the US has to have abs soon