[LordHeini]

In Europe new motorcycles must have ABS on both wheels since 2017.

Its a good thing.

While it is possible to stop in less distance without ABS, in real live emergency situations ABS usually is of great help due to the no skill required, additional control.

For example if you take the sudden car running in front of you from a side road. You will instinctively pull the brakes hard on a road with unknown slipperiness.

Maybe the car then stops in the last second or is really fast so there is space, then you need control to ride around the car.

You really don't want your rear wheel locking up and the bike going sideways or doing a stoppie on your front wheel which completely removes any way of obstacle avoidance.

The same is true if over breaking in a curve, if you can handle the bike standing up you can brake astonishingly hard in curves.

I would not recommend it though it feels really weird being slippery in a curve.

On rainy days i do even like traction control. It saved my ass a few times where i accelerated out of a curve a bit to enthusiastically on wet foliage.