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Shiiiiiiit.
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Is this a 1250? Heard of someone else with an abs failure when it was pretty new, can't remember start caused it, but they didn't have a ride like that, just the warning light.
@Chak buffeting sucks, spent ages on the last two bikes with bits of abs plastic sheet and cardboard to try and get rid of it, amazes me that bikes don't get wind tunnel/real world testing. Had an Africa twin at launch two years ago for the day, buffeting was so bad at 55 to 72mph that i went to a mates to borrow his schubeth (Way quieter than my own) and made very little difference. Unless i suddenly grew 6" to get clean air or hugged the tank it was unridable -
Jesus fuck that sounds horrific. Glad you’re good. Something to be said about your skill kicking ass.
Had a similar thing on the first bike I bought coming off the slip road and double down shifting by mistake. Tyre slipped then caught traction again.Is it a complete abs unit failure? Those kinda scared me on the older bikes when I was looking at the GS. Looked so bloody complicated.
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Proper brown trouser moment on the way home from the inlaws tonight...
Leaning into an on ramp (max 20 degrees, 30mph) and went to accelerate.
ABS Pro / traction control unit failure.
Massive rear end slide on a 250kg (plus me) adventure bike which I wrestled back to upright but, in doing so, ended up giving a fist full of throttle which started a pretty horrific speed wobble. If the bike wasn't so fat, I think that would have thrown me off. Managed to point it towards the motorway and give it some more power which eased out of the wobble but it lasted a solid 3 seconds or so.
Not massively pleased to have an electronics failure on a 1,000 mile old bike but glad I wasn't picking it / me up from the motorway barriers.
It's 'safe to drive' but only to the BMW shop so....
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