I recall a site existed with lots of info on manufacturers' suspension designs, each mapped out. I remember it being quite interesting. Lots of analysis on the designs.
Anyone recall this site and can post the link?
Site with suspension mapping
The linkage guy in Spain?
Ya found it while waiting for a reply. Interesting stuff.
Wish the google translation was better. Hard to figure out some of his interpretation of the data.
I'd love to learn a little bit more about suspension curves and the data that's represented on this site. Anyone care to explain to a novice a bit about this stuff?
I have a Process 153 (Linkage Linky) so I'm pretty curious to know what that all means…
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CoilAir, it can be as complicated or simple as you like! The leverage ratio refers to the amount of force applied for a given travel distance. Bikes can have higher, lower or variable leverage (and as such force applied) differences through out the entire range of available travel. In the case of the Process 153 it appears that you're leverage ratio changes very little from zero travel to full travel and falls from a higher leverage ratio to a lower ratio approximately 2.84 to 2.62. So at the beginning of your travel you have a bigger lever i.e. more force than you have at the end of your travel a smaller lever i.e. less force. The force chart is simply indicating how much force that lever is applying at a given travel.
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Michael
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