Yep, that is absolutely true. Even beyond legal liability, there is the moral question we all have to ask ourselves: do I want to be the one who did
that to someone else's bike? I would be wary of modifying the braking system of any motorcycle for anyone else but what my real problem would be is that now there is a modified bike out there 'on the loose'. Someone would sooner or later buy the motorcycle thinking it had XXXX as an on-board system without ever knowing it had been disengaged. I have had experiences in industry where someone (obviously in a superior position) wanted something that I just thought was too risky and would not install / code / execute such a thing.
I even had to sit down and think about it before I wrote the original overview on a Rostra installation: what if someone tried this, made a mistake and got hurt / killed- how much responsibility do I bear for that? In the end I did publish obviously but I tried my best to put make it clear to anyone reading it that there was a risk and that the installation was up to the installer in the end.
I also believe it would take an extraordinary amount of effort to develop a work- around for such an integral system as ABS and / or Linked brakes. That of course would make it ridiculously expensive to sell and so it isn't really marketable.
But the information on what can be done is out there for everyone to read and execute as they desire. The linked brakes can be defeated <relatively> easily apparently modifying nothing but the hydraulics and even then only changing what amounts to plumbing.
And as was mentioned, I have one o' dem old- fangled Gen. 1's so no linked brakes or ABS for me.
Brian
There's also a liability issue I think. Nothing Brian has done with the fuel or kipass systems or what Guhl has done in the ecu reflash is directly related to a DOT regulated safety componet. Altering or defeating the abs system might leave one's posterior hanging in the wind.