All good stuff gentlemen; please keep this type of useful technical information flowing!
I do remember the original introduction of ABS, in the UK anyway, to BMW bikes - and it was innovative.
They used demo videos (or whatever tech that was back then; 16mm tape??) of K bikes sliding about on skid pans with outriggers fitted to the bikes so that they did not actually fall over when braking hard (fitted to those bikes which did not have ABS).
The stopping distance results were impressive, but of no interest to the "old timers" of the day.
Incidentally, a OBD2 bit of kit is sold on ebay for about £10.
As I understand it, all of the servicing records of BMW bikes are not held by the local servicing garage but are sent back to the big server in Berlin.
Car manufacturers are doing similar things.
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Dave
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