More nonsense from Stone Free. ABS is a life saver even for an experienced rider. Maybe you don't ride in bad weather, but I have ridden in both driving downpours and in snow, wet snow in Oregon. You tour on a motorcycle you don't always get to choose your weather. Siskiyou pass on dry powder wasn't so bad, but US 395 in wet slushy snow that was freezing all over the front of the bike, and me, and the road, was pretty difficult riding. I started the trip in hundred degree weather but by the second day it was snow. It doesn't take much of a mistake to put you on your side in weather like that. Maybe you can threshold brake on dry pavement (I practice that too) but in sloppy weather that skill doesn't get you very far. If you don't believe me, test ride a bike with ABS and go find some wet pavement to see the effects of dry and wet pavement on braking. I had been riding for many years but it took riding some ABS equipped bikes to understand how much braking power you really have at each end. Riding them taught me a lot about what I can get away with on my non-ABS equipped bikes. For less skilled or casual riders ABS can be the difference between crashing or not crashing.