The Difference

The Difference

As we develop suspension we find there are many reasons why suspension has stayed under certain guide lines of construction. Suspension is really a bugger to make sense of in dirt bike conditions. It is connected to you and you can influence the way it works with your God given reaction system thus making it difficult to discern if it really should be changed or not. When you ride with a blind fold on (so to speak/not recommended) the bike then is subject to little input.

For example:
Why do you go around big breaking bumps?
Why do you avoid sitting down on acceleration bumps?
Why do you only ride for 10 minutes at a time while practicing at the local track?

I know from experience that all actions made by the human response mechanism are relative to pain and scare tactics, visual and obviousness. When something bad happens you try and avoid it next time and the next, pretty soon you are guaranteed not to go straight into the ruff line. What if it were reverse? You are scared of everything and then every nasty bump or rut you hit wrong shows you that the bike will suck it up. Pretty soon you don’t care what you hit. There are some exceptions of course. Like, don’t go 60mph into a bolder section with 3 ft high boulders. That is not what I am saying. What I am saying is if the suspension is working magical, you can track straight over ruff ground with out wrist pain and kidney bleeding. You will ride for 30 minutes straight and feel great.

The difference is learning how to make parts that fix those areas, and reveal to you a way thru the bumps.