>So, Nick, you ARE doing maintenance:  you are exercising your ABS at least
>once a day.

Well Henry it's a sort of maintenance just without spanners and brakefluid
etc .

>Is that something you are doing intentionally by attempting to lock up your
>brakes, or because of your riding environment (wet, slippery, etc.)?

It's a bit of both , i like to see where the limits of the tyres are on
different surfaces and under different conditions also the limits of the
braking system , sometimes intentional sometimes not .

Going on from the question .

I do believe that the ABS is under used on most peoples bikes , which is why
it fails .
It's no good having it if you are afraid to use it in an emergency , also if
you wait till your in an emergency situation before you use it , it could be
seized and of no help at all .
People may not want to slam on the anchors when riding to see if it works ,
but why not , it's a heavy bike and you may just need all the help you can
get one day to stop . I'd rather find out if it works when i can have some
control over the conditions , rather than wait till the conditions give me
no choice but to slam them on and hope they work ok .

atb Nick T
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