Miata Mailing List: July 1993, Message #119
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   From: Mick Galvin 
Subject: RE: to ABS or not
   Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1993 14:24:34 -0400



In regards to learning to "threshold brake", I seriously doubt that one
could learn to do this in an emergency (as well as a good ABS system)
given that emergencies don't come up that often and then they come in
all sorts of ways, race drivers sure because this is something they
do on a regular basis and emergencies are a little more defined - black
ice doesn't just appear at Laguna Seca. Threshold braking when not
under stress is easy to do.

I read sometime back that even experienced drivers could not outperform
a cars ABS but some motorcyles ABS systems could be beaten by an
experienced rider (excluding gravel etc).

One good reason I got the ABS system was that my insurance premium was
lowered a bit!

Cheers, Mick.