After 15 years of abstinence, I am thinking about buying a brand new F800S. Actually, I didn’t want an ABS. Reasons: – Another technical feature that can be broken – Without ABS I make the brake fluid change easy myself, but with ABS this is probably not much more difficult – 700€ additional costs Two specs recently advised me to buy ABS. Unfortunately, the reasons do not apply to me. The one has a 1200 GS, with which he also sa All right, I see that ABS brings the advantages here. The other one spoke of full braking on wet road. OK, I also see that ABS brings the advantages here. But it’s different with me. I only ride in nice weather and on tar roads. I look out of the window early on Saturday and hear the weather report. And if I am (likely) sure that the weather lasts all day, then I decide to go on a tour. OK, of course it happens to me in rare cases that I come unexpectedly into a rain. But if I drive for example 5000km a year, then maybe just 200km in the rain. And then I certainly drive absolutely slowly and carefully (actually even if it is dry). A tiny residual risk of course always remains. In addition, I have now talked with two other people (work colleagues with BMW boxers). And look, with both the ABS has never before What do you think about it. But taking into account my rides (tar roads in good weather)?