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Originally Posted by rascalangel I was wondering how difficult it would be to fit these with
Option A: ABS from countries where above bikes come fitted with ABS from factory |
For your motorcycle to work reliably and safely after retro-fitment of ABS, these are the OEM parts you will need to procure:
(1) ABS hydraulic unit
(2) Bracket, dampers and bolts
(3) Brake pipes / hoses (at least 4 nos, which go into / out of the ABS unit)
(4) Wheel speed sensors - front and rear
(5) Toner rings - front and rear
(6) Mounting brackets, bolts for (4) and (5)
(7) Speedometer cluster (you must have a working failure warning lamp)
(8) New fuse box / fuses for ABS motor and pump
(9) In some cases, ABS ON / OFF switch (though this is become rarer now with regulation)
(10) Relevant parts of the wiring harness
And as
Mashblue posted above, in some cases, the mounting brackets are integrated into bigger parts like swing-arms or fork outer tubes in which case you will have to change them as well. Welding brackets is not an option as the air gap between wheel speed sensor and toner ring is usually between 1 ~ 1.5 mm which you cannot maintain with road-side welding.
(11) If your motorcycle has a CAN in it, you may have to change the engine ECU as well. Otherwise, the ABS will throw up a failure and not work as it cannot communicate with the engine ECU. CAN in motorcycles is also pretty common these days.
If you still go ahead with all these, and a failure crops up, how will you diagnose it? Your A.S.S. will most probably not have the software tool which can read ABS failures as well. So you have to buy a diagnostic tool as well.
Is it worth it? As
GTO pointed out,
NO.
Your best options:
Buy a pre-owned / new motorcycle equipped with ABS.
OR
Be patient till 2018 April when every new motorcycle above 125cc will be factory-fitted with ABS.
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Originally Posted by rascalangel Option B: Fit ABS from say Bajaj Dominar or KTM duke on them. |
No! We spend several months tuning each bike (sometimes, different variants) on dry asphalt, wet asphalt, wet ceramic, gravel, grass, rough road, bumps, skid pads, hills, rail crossings, manhole covers and what not before finalizing the software parameters. This is not an indicator lamp that you can just swap!!
Disclaimer: I am a test engineer working on motorcycle ABS development for Continental Japan, and adding ABS to non-ABS equipped motorcycles is part of my job.