Originally Posted by dynaryder

Oh c'mon now. Coming from the moto world,you know perfectly well how ABS systems work(BMW introduced it in what,'90?). They use sensors and a microprocessor to modulate the brake far faster than humanly possible. The Shimano modulators are just a spring.



Hope your son's ok. Good chance nothing equipment-wise would have helped;he did a panic reaction. Also what's to say if he'd been on your bike that he wouldn't've been able to stop and would've ran into the guy,which could have caused injury to two people.