The Suzuki SV650 is now available fitted with ABS. And the one here today was in for its first 1000k service. While this bike was on the bench with its oil draining out of the engine I was walking around it just checking over a few things. As part of this check I had a squeeze of the brake levers and I have to say they felt really spongy compared to a non-ABS bike. I think it's just down to the fact that the brakes have a huge ABS brake modulator full of valves that operate them that give the brakes such a soggy feeling. On saying this once on the road the brakes felt ok and did a pretty good job of pulling the bike up. I'm still sitting on the fence about bikes with ABS and I'm not too sure if I'd be paying the extra $1000+ that it costs for the up spec ABS models of bike in the market place. But again it's a device that would only have to work once to have paid for itself.