Bosch is the world's largest motor vehicle supplier of ABS (anti-lock braking systems) with ABS now in every car on the road along with the majority of motorbikes. Since 2004 it's been a legal requirement for all new production cars to have ABS. In 2017, Bosch introduced its first-generation system to the best mountain bikes, but it was a fairly hefty piece of hardware, bulky and had limited success. Recently, they launched their second-generation version which is now a slick and intuitive system, super easy to set up, understand and control.
I had the opportunity to meet with Bosch ABS experts and learn about their award-winning tech, which has already won the prestigious Design and Innovation Award 2023. I also got to test ride the system on the Cube Stereo Hybrid 140 HPC ABS 750 at Glentress, Scotland, the venue for the UCI XC World Championships in August. I then returned to test the ABS again with a novice mountain biker to see how he would adapt to the system with my newly learnt knowledge, and to see if I could ride faster having already tested it myself.
