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no.

I agree this would have to be a try before you buy thing as well as a cost consideration. I'd love to buy the new fireblade for example however I'd not go for the abs option as it's even more money to shell out! On another note, isn't there a somewhat mystical art to fiddling with ones own suspension (easy now!) to obtain our riding preference and - prefered amount of feel? If we're not careful before long all we will be required to do is sit on the bike and point it in the right direction! (Gps will tell the bike where we are and the max mph we can go, distance sensors will assist in speed on motorways etc, etc!)

It's hard to comment on something I haven't tried

I have never experienced Adaptive or Active Suspension, how could I or anyone else for that matter comment on this silly post. The query should have 3 answer, "yes," "no" and "I have no clue what the hell you're talking about."

I ride a K1300S with ESAII and love the idea of changing the damping on the fly, from soft to tight. But unless I try it I wouldn't be able to comment on Active Suspension. Basically it's another one of those technologies that's coming from the car side.

The suspension is supposed to react to the road. But when the roads are so bad in the US, specially in the Northeast, the suspension will always want to be in the soft mode so I would imagine, hence I would still have to manually or electronically adjust it.

Sounds like a product that will fair well in the most ideal conditions, but will falter in the real world. But then again, maybe not. We can't comment with some intelligence unless we have tried it.

No Thanks

I'm not keen on these gadgets, lets be honest who amongst us really needs this tech? Unless you're monstering around a track I doubt you'll notice the difference. All these things do is push up costs for buying and servicing whilst making even the most simple of maintenance tasks nigh on impossible for the home mechanic.

Id love to try it

It would be great to have the option as real world conditions change in a heart beat, im sure if it was priced sensibly it would be good to see the difference as most find a bikes setup mind boggling.