Radar Anyone?

For me I think it will absolutely take the fun out of it I can see the need in cars but not so sure about it on a bike

 

A step far methinks, ride to the conditions not your ego.

 

Found the adaptive CC on my car useful in the fog a week or two back - it could see the car in front better than I could. Set the speed very low/sensible and did not trust it fully but it eased the speed down before I saw the car in front was going even slower so it was a helpful aid in that situation.

The rest of the time I find it a pain. It slows you down too readily and does not work out if the car in front turning off will be out of the way in time like a human and slams on the brakes. I can switch the adaptive bit off and use passive but it is a faff to find the option while driving. It has an "intelligent" option too but I cannot be arsed to read the manual to find out what it does...

On the bile? I don't ride in shite weather so not so much of a fog issue. Plus where would the radar sender/sensor be located? If it moves it's arc of view with the forks/front wheel then I can imagine it could suddenly "see" a car and potentially over-react. Considering how brake-happy my car gets I would not want my bike doing that!

 

Imagine you get on to the straight bit of road and start to accelerate past the 35mph Ka in front. So far so good.

Then the fecking car you are driving hammers on the brakes and shouts "BANG" at you, whilst lighting up the dash in red!

It is very scary and not good for the underwear (particularly as when this happens you automatically go for the brakes too!). Luckily there was no-one behind me when it happened!

And you have to switch it off every time you start the car, along with the start/stop crap

 

No thanks

 

The price of a modern bike is too high already without something else to lever it up another few hundred quid....