For those of you that never activate the ABS, you must be really smooth at braking and never have potholes, bumps and the like ever while braking??? I find no fault with ABS in panic stops, I've had a couple on the Tenere, neither was really panic enough where regular brakes would have not sufficed in my own opinion though. Here is my complaint on ABS, and it happens often, varies by road conditions drastically, and that is in the event any bumps or potholes are encountered during a simple routine stop, if either tire bounces and loses contact with the road, the ABS kicks in immediately and it's just like manually releasing the brakes for what seems like eternity. In reality, probably only a fraction of a second, but that fraction I could be braking and I'm not, then if the wheels hit more bumps, repeat the scenerio. Can make for a real bad encounter. I ride extremely easy and brake extremely easy and have ridden for near 50 years, and this part of the ABS is something that I don't need or want. To me this bad part outweighs the benefits gained with ABS during panic stops.
It's exactly the same scenario on the traction control, hit any bumps or potholes while accelerating, the traction control kicks in and you don't go anywhere for a fraction of a second, hit another bump and repeat. Of course the traction control can be set to less intrusive or even off, but reverts to turned on full with each key cycle.
I wish with ABS if we have to have it, it could be set easy to less intrusive or even off just like the traction control, but have both features stay where set and not revert back every key cycle. That's my take on it at least, I ride other non ABS bikes, hit bumps while braking, no drama, just stop. On the Tenere not so, lots of drama sometimes riding the exact same roads.