Have to disagree with you, SlimShadey. More than once I've been cruising along fine in the right lane and had some idiot fly up beside me in the center lane, pull in front of me by inches, and immediately slam on their brakes to make a right turn. Nothing I did wrong and nothing I could do about it except "slam on my brakes." SO glad my Slim has ABS.

 

Hey, Goldtop...no, it can't be added after the fact. I asked about that when I got mine and was told it couldn't be done.

 

I have ABS on my 2014 slim and it paid for itself tonight in the very scenario DaytonaSlim painted above! Heavy traffic; I was in right lane, car flies past in left and does a swerve into right lane with a brake and right turn. And I own a fire extinguisher that I hope I never have to use either.

 

Just bought my 2014 Slim paid full price for a abs bike. I have bought 15 new Harleys in my 40yrs of riding none came with option for abs and now that it was available I made sure I was going to get it. I dont think it matters how you ride or how far for us who ride know that you never know when you are going to use it and it does not have to be your fault ever have a animal jump out in front of you. Dont look at the 1200. Thats a small price to pay to better your chances of not wrecking your bike or worse.

 

my '14 came with ABS, works extremely well when testing in a vacant parking lot. For added safety, I'd recommend the ABS (sure wish it was the linked system). But if you're wife plans on putting custom rims on the bike, then don't get ABS. The ABS system is tuned to the stock rims and will not operate on anything else (per the owners manual).

 

It should be the quite opposite because Harleys are heavy and having a single disc brake up front doesnt work to your advantage when you do an emergency brake.

I welcome ABS brakes on FAT Heavy bikes like Harleys.

Let me know how that goes when you skid and lock up your tires then crash onto oncoming traffic because you though ABS was not cool to have.

 

This in fact may be one of the dumbest responses I have ever read.

Get ABS, should be standard on all bikes.

 

Not trying to ruffle SS's feathers , but anytime anyone says I don't need...it's a red flag to me they probably need it a lot worse than some other folks.

In this case it's ABS, but it could be seat belts in a car, food when you been drinking all day, etc....anything. If you don't think you need something that could save you because you do things better than the folks that do use it???

Oh well, live and learn. I'm sure I won't change his mind if he hasn't thought it through by now. (If he's serious with his response that is. For his sake, I hope he's jerking us around.)

 

I have it on my 2012 slim because it came from factory with abs/security package. It was also the only black slim available in my area. I would rather have it than not.