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Question:

Can you brake when cornering if you have ABS and traction control on motorcycle?

So I know that braking when cornering on a bike should be avoided as it can result low/high sides. But with these new supersports offering ABS and traction control would it prevent you from crashing if you brake in a corner?

Answer:

Motorcycles With Traction Control
No they only drive the front wheels. Feathering can be caused by warn shocks/struts or by alignment problems
One thing that everyone seems to be over looking is wheel balance if you loose a weight it will wear a tire in no time.CV axles let the wheel turn and the manager is doing what they all do when a problem comes up they blow smoke and in this case it is weak.I would go to the home office with my complaint.It has been my experience that most of these managers have very little or no real knowledge of auto maintenance.They are hired off the street,trained by someone off the street and there main job is to make money for the company.
ABS is to keep your brakes from locking up on hard braking, when you're going in a straight line. But when you lose traction in a curve, the problem is not your brakes locking, it's because you have less traction in a curve so you can't brake as hard. Traction control, I'm not sure how that works in a motorcycle. On a car its purpose is to send the same power to each wheel to keep the car tracking straight, but on a bike you have only one powered wheel. Traction control could keep the wheel from spinning on hard acceleration, but it still doesn't give you more traction in a curve, so you'd have the same possibility of the wheel braking lose and sliding. Part of the 'art' of motorcycling is seeing a curve ahead and slowing down just the right amount before you get into the curve, then accelerating out of the curve. ABS and traction control don't change that.
Everyone above me is retarded and have been riding wrong their whole life, as it would appear. When you're in tight curve dragging knees you don't brake, as it could result in you losing traction. You do all your braking before you enter a turn/curve.

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