You'll get less squat certainly, but it also changes the ratio of X & Y displacement during travel, especially at end stroke, at least that's what I noticed when dorking around with variants on linkage. Like pretty much all Horst links, it flattens that curve profile, so you get a bit of the high pivot goodness with horizontal travel but not too much that it saps overall vertical travel. I suspect it makes life easier on the shock and wheel as when the rear is returning it won't be as abrupt of a direction change when it encounters the next impact. I've read folks say that single high pivots are pretty noisy on rapid, heavy impacts due to the wheel moving forward more and faster as the rear returns. Basically, the swingarm is wound up and swinging for the fences when it takes the next hit. No personal experience here, just what I've gleaned from various reviews and a few different curves from software looked like. If I'm off base, I will happily eat my crow.
Jan. 30, 2023, 10:38 a.m. - JT
You'll get less squat certainly, but it also changes the ratio of X & Y displacement during travel, especially at end stroke, at least that's what I noticed when dorking around with variants on linkage. Like pretty much all Horst links, it flattens that curve profile, so you get a bit of the high pivot goodness with horizontal travel but not too much that it saps overall vertical travel. I suspect it makes life easier on the shock and wheel as when the rear is returning it won't be as abrupt of a direction change when it encounters the next impact. I've read folks say that single high pivots are pretty noisy on rapid, heavy impacts due to the wheel moving forward more and faster as the rear returns. Basically, the swingarm is wound up and swinging for the fences when it takes the next hit. No personal experience here, just what I've gleaned from various reviews and a few different curves from software looked like. If I'm off base, I will happily eat my crow.