VOL. 52 ISSUE 24 JUNE 16, 2015 P89
This is the important one.
You want to be able to
maintain that red line.
Go over it and you'll be
on your head, go under
it and you won't get full
brake potential. Using the
MSC/ABS system means
you can stay as close to
this red line as possible
without crashing.
This graph shows the braking
potential of the MSC/ABS
system, where a Mue of 1
is dry tarmac, and a Mue
of 0.5 is gravel. According
to this, at 33-degrees lean
you can have 85 percent of
your braking force. This is
clearly a conservative figure
as we were able to pull over
40-degrees and use over
85 percent braking force
without washing out. But you
get the idea.
ABS systems have
certainly come a long
way since Bosch's first
motorcycle system back
in 1995. That unit was
the size of a small brick
and weighed 4.5 kg. Now
it's half the size of the
palm of your hand and
weighs under 1 kg!
