ABS brakes?
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The notched ring on the right side and the ABS light on dash will blink after starting. Light goes out after 5 or 6 mph.
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You'll find out, just by reading up on ST1300 
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Post a close up photo of the right-hand (brake lever) side of your front wheel. We'll tell you.How can I tell if my 2004 ST has abs brakes or not?
The pulsar ring and the wire with a sensor on the right had side of the front wheel is the easy clue - you can tell just by seeing a photo.
The other clue is the dash. Right hand side. 3 red lights on mine (UK model) FI, ABS, Oil can.
The ABS light will stay on utnil you have started moving. If it goes out, ABS is working. If it stays on, ABS has an issue. Safe to ride, but ABS will not operate if a wheel locks.
If the light isn't there, I guess that ABS isn't fitted.
The other clue is the dash. Right hand side. 3 red lights on mine (UK model) FI, ABS, Oil can.
The ABS light will stay on utnil you have started moving. If it goes out, ABS is working. If it stays on, ABS has an issue. Safe to ride, but ABS will not operate if a wheel locks.
If the light isn't there, I guess that ABS isn't fitted.
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wjbertrand
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You’re going to confuse him, the tone ring and sensor are on the right side of the wheel. I suspect his bike is non-ABS or he would have noticed the ABS self check light upon start up.
Depends on what mechanical training he has.
Many motorcycles identify sides from standing in front of the bike facing it (it’s not your bike, you shouldn’t be sitting on it)
While other assume left and right as you are sitting on it.
Most Harley Davidson front brake rotors are clearly marked Left side (throttle side) and right side (clutch lever side)
Many motorcycles identify sides from standing in front of the bike facing it (it’s not your bike, you shouldn’t be sitting on it)
While other assume left and right as you are sitting on it.
Most Harley Davidson front brake rotors are clearly marked Left side (throttle side) and right side (clutch lever side)
Oh Tish. Thanks. @wjbertrand - Corrected.
I always use left/right as If I am sitting on the bike. That was a pure typing error - or brain error.
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I’ve spotted myself doing that a number of times in recent years - interchanging the words left and right. I know my left from my right. I am thinking right, I intend to say ‘right’ and for some reason that I cannot explain, I type, or say ‘left’. (And vice versa). It is as if my brain knows it has to convey a direction, so it chooses one at random to pass on to my fingers or mouth.
I’m wondering whether years of counter-steering - which happens without any thought process from me - is to blame. I’m currently having to reprogram myself now that I no longer have the ST1300, and have a 3 wheel Can-Am Spyder. My instinctive riding doesn’t work and at present is very scary. The wide-apart front wheels make the bike tilt left and right as the camber of the road changes. A slight raise in the road on the nearside wheel tilts the bike to the centre of the road and my instinctive reaction is to put forward pressure on the nearside bar to countersteer the bike to the nearside. Automatic, no thinking involved.
But of course that doesn’t work with the Spyder. It steers the trike to the centre of the road, making the situation worse..
So I am having to talk to myself - ‘steer it left’ (nearside in uk) , don’t push the left bar. I’ve only done 50 miles on it since when it has been too foul and too cold to go out. So instead, I have been noticing what I do instinctively in the car , and noticing much more how much the road throws me left and right in the seat - much more than I had been aware of. And of course that is what the Spyder is doing.
I had the reverse of this when I got my first large solo bike -the ST1100. A gap of 20 years before which I’d had two motorcycle / sidecar combinations. I didn’t know about counter-steering. It seemed weird for a while and then all of a sudden it became natural. But at present I’m still in the early days of reprogramming my brain.
Whether my left / right interchange issue will stop once I have that sorted out - time will tell.
(Now if I have mixed up any left/right in that little essay, that is going to be really confusing)
I always use left/right as If I am sitting on the bike. That was a pure typing error - or brain error.
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I’ve spotted myself doing that a number of times in recent years - interchanging the words left and right. I know my left from my right. I am thinking right, I intend to say ‘right’ and for some reason that I cannot explain, I type, or say ‘left’. (And vice versa). It is as if my brain knows it has to convey a direction, so it chooses one at random to pass on to my fingers or mouth.
I’m wondering whether years of counter-steering - which happens without any thought process from me - is to blame. I’m currently having to reprogram myself now that I no longer have the ST1300, and have a 3 wheel Can-Am Spyder. My instinctive riding doesn’t work and at present is very scary. The wide-apart front wheels make the bike tilt left and right as the camber of the road changes. A slight raise in the road on the nearside wheel tilts the bike to the centre of the road and my instinctive reaction is to put forward pressure on the nearside bar to countersteer the bike to the nearside. Automatic, no thinking involved.But of course that doesn’t work with the Spyder. It steers the trike to the centre of the road, making the situation worse..
So I am having to talk to myself - ‘steer it left’ (nearside in uk) , don’t push the left bar. I’ve only done 50 miles on it since when it has been too foul and too cold to go out. So instead, I have been noticing what I do instinctively in the car , and noticing much more how much the road throws me left and right in the seat - much more than I had been aware of. And of course that is what the Spyder is doing.
I had the reverse of this when I got my first large solo bike -the ST1100. A gap of 20 years before which I’d had two motorcycle / sidecar combinations. I didn’t know about counter-steering. It seemed weird for a while and then all of a sudden it became natural. But at present I’m still in the early days of reprogramming my brain.
Whether my left / right interchange issue will stop once I have that sorted out - time will tell.
(Now if I have mixed up any left/right in that little essay, that is going to be really confusing)
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That's why we have Port and Starboard... let the added confusion begin!Depends on what mechanical training he has.
Many motorcycles identify sides from standing in front of the bike facing it (it’s not your bike, you shouldn’t be sitting on it)
While other assume left and right as you are sitting on it.
Most Harley Davidson front brake rotors are clearly marked Left side (throttle side) and right side (clutch lever side)
You've omitted far- and nearside....
Left, Right, left..Left right..left!
Air Force Coffee is mighty fine,
Tastes like mud and turpentine!
Heup two, three, four.
To your left, to your left,
Left, right, left!!
Air Force Coffee is mighty fine,
Tastes like mud and turpentine!
Heup two, three, four.
To your left, to your left,
Left, right, left!!
LOL. You REALLY confused me with that correction, John.
ST Gui
240Robert
I love The Far Side.
ST Gui
240Robert
Zackly!That's why we have Port and Starboard... let the added confusion begin!
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Nice one @Gus1300 - that is exactly how it feels. I know that it will just click one day. I thought that having had a similar experience of riding with a sidecar, that I’d adapt fairly quickly. I’ve had the trike for nearly 3 months now, but have only been able to ride it 3 times. The roads have been wet or icy - and apparently these machines slip very easily on wet roads. I don’t know, but don’t intend to find out until my reactions are the correct way round.
Curiosity though - I am much better at taking right hand corners than left. (I’m in the uk - we drive on the left). I’m pretty sure that is 45 year old sidecar memory. Take a left hander too quickly - turning towards the chair - the sidecar wheel lifts. Right hander corners are much easier and much more fun.
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Anyway - that is a big hijack of @mykv’s post. I notice that he hasn’t replied since posting. Sorry @mykv. Did you get the answer that you are looking for? Does your bike have ABS ?
Curiosity though - I am much better at taking right hand corners than left. (I’m in the uk - we drive on the left). I’m pretty sure that is 45 year old sidecar memory. Take a left hander too quickly - turning towards the chair - the sidecar wheel lifts. Right hander corners are much easier and much more fun.
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Anyway - that is a big hijack of @mykv’s post. I notice that he hasn’t replied since posting. Sorry @mykv. Did you get the answer that you are looking for? Does your bike have ABS ?
Just do like cars do - driver's side and passenger's side.
On a motorcycle that'll make it nose <> empennage...
ST Gui
240Robert
Sometimes when someone gets the left or right side wrong I still say "No your military left" or "right" as appropriate. I don't know a lot of people anymore who get that.
Still a fan of PORT and STBD though.
Still a fan of PORT and STBD though.
Then there’s the Red side and the Green side.