Re: ABS and rear wheel lock up (figured out!)
Hey thanks for the reply tenere group, and it's nomorbills reply that allowed me to figure out what happened. I stalled the engine and it locked the rear wheel. I don't usually wear ear plugs, but that afternoon was really windy here in the prairies, and I decided to put some good ear plugs in. I was also wearing a new helmet that fit nice and snug on my head and ears...I was protected from the elements, but also could not hear a thing!
At the time of the lock up, I had made a split decision to make a corner that was coming up fast. I was coming down hard in my gears with my clutch in, shifting down from 4th or 5th down to 2nd or 3rd, and I bet I simply stalled the engine locking up the brakes and putting me into a skid. I did drop the bike by the way and that is why I never figured out that the engine was dead! Now a couple of days later, and thinking things through more clearly, it makes more sense that it was my driver error and not an ABS glitch as I had been thinking.
There is way too much research and development by Yamaha that goes into a bike like this to have faulty ABS be the cause of a lock up. So many expert reviews do rave about this ABS system and it gives me peace of mind to know it was the nut holding the handle bars that was to blame! ::015::