MONDRAKER CRAFTY R W/BOSCH E-BIKE ABS

£TBC • 29in • bosch-ebike.com

Short for Anti-lock Braking System, ABS is not an acronym, it’s an initialisation, because you don’t pronounce it as a word like NASA. That doesn’t make it any less hi-tech or exciting though. But what exactly is ABS?

In short, it’s a feedback loop within the brake system that stops the wheels locking up and losing traction when braking hard. Most modern cars have it fitted as standard as it’s been shown to dramatically reduce stopping distances and increase safety.

Pressure sensors on the brake lines and speed sensors on the brake rotors/wheels allow the system to know when the wheels are locked and how much hydraulic pressure is being applied.

Then, with some clever mathematics and decouplers, an algorithm calculates how