Re: ABS -- Re: [ST] The Smiley Bag incident

[Darren <rs955i@xxxxxxx>]

The front wheel already has a wheel speed sensor that is used for the
speedo, could
easily also be used by the ABS. It is done on cars all the time.

Darren
01 RS
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "David W. Funk" <dwf@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Brad Turner" <bturner@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 8:28 AM
Subject: RE: ABS -- Re: [ST] The Smiley Bag incident


> Brad is right, I had forgotten about the wheel speed sensor, opps.
> So ABS does add a sensor ring and detector. But that is only several
> ounces. The vast majority of ABS weight is mounted on the bike.
> I think if ABS were more common some company would combine the wheel
> speed sensor with the speedometer sensor.
>
> David W. Funk
> '94 BMW K75S/ABS + '00 Triumph Sprint ST
> Pleasanton, CA
>
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:54:59 -0800, Brad Turner wrote:
>
> >Hmmm if the front end is "...just standard parts." How does the front
wheel
> >sensor work? Perhaps I'm misinformed but I was under the impression
> that a
> >sensor mechanism of some sort is required to detect the motion of the
> front
> >wheel. Furthermore I think the sensor has to be located on the unsprung
> >portion of the front end. Am I missing something? Why do ABS equipped
> >beemers have that funky looking toothed ring on the rotor assembly.
Surely
> >it is not a zero mass part.
> >
> >-brad-
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: David W. Funk [mailto:dwf@xxxxxxxxx]
> >Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 4:04 PM
> >To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: ABS -- Re: [ST] The Smiley Bag incident
> >
> >
> >ABS does not added unsprung weight. On all the ABS systems I have
> seen,
> >the actual brakes are standard. There is a control box connected in line
> >with
> >the brake lines that modulates the pressure. But the caliper & rotors are
> >just
> >standard parts.
> >
>
>
>
>
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