I really enjoy being able to see relevant wheel rate charts and compare those side to side - especially since I can pull up some of the various volume spacer trends/tendencies from separate charts and see just how much overlap is realistically possible.
Pivot locations, and linkage-driven variants can all modify the leverage curves for linkage driven, but that mirrors my opinions on those that it's a linear leverage ratio curve, but flat is actually somewhat difficult to achieve (and never desirable anyway). In a lot of regards, this simplicity can actually provide a fair bit of value with appropriately matched damper setups, especially for linkage driven variants where more can be done for the initial wheel rate, and realistically the deeper travel segments are going to be close enough to become dominanted by suspension tune anyway. I do think that the multi-link driven single pivots (of which DELTA is a great example) might as well be handled as a completely separate animal.
March 4, 2020, 8:34 a.m. - Tehllama42
I really enjoy being able to see relevant wheel rate charts and compare those side to side - especially since I can pull up some of the various volume spacer trends/tendencies from separate charts and see just how much overlap is realistically possible. Pivot locations, and linkage-driven variants can all modify the leverage curves for linkage driven, but that mirrors my opinions on those that it's a linear leverage ratio curve, but flat is actually somewhat difficult to achieve (and never desirable anyway). In a lot of regards, this simplicity can actually provide a fair bit of value with appropriately matched damper setups, especially for linkage driven variants where more can be done for the initial wheel rate, and realistically the deeper travel segments are going to be close enough to become dominanted by suspension tune anyway. I do think that the multi-link driven single pivots (of which DELTA is a great example) might as well be handled as a completely separate animal.