I am not so sure ABS brakes are the "cats-meow" so to speak, but most bikes now have them as the marketers have forced them on the industry...Now we are faced with electric cars and self driving cars being shoved down our throats by those that feel it is the answer to all our problems!!!....Recently, legislators in California are attempting to introduce a bill banning all "Internal Combustion Engines"...Good Luck. but the "Idiots" in that state think they are the only people on earth.....Ride safe