What makes for a good shock for your bike?

One thing that intrigues me is how the fork stay higher up on the travel area, if it encounters a small bump during braking? Help me understand. I would be inclined to think that upon contact with the bump, it would break through the threshold valving and end up in the dive position not having the ability to come back up. At least until you release the braking effect.

 

good point. maybe we just need to start making linkage forks again. can you say DW-Fork? :lol: anti squat (dive) ftw!

 

Now you've done it! Dino's going to be chiming in here soon.

Speaking of linkage front suspension setups. I remember a Yamaha motorcycle having a front facing swing arm suspension. They also used it for road racing back in the mid 80's (I think, could be later). I remember test riding the Yamaha and thought that the bike rode well. I'll have to find a photo of it somewhere. Could be interesting.

Here's a photo of the bike

 

I think dino would have a fit if we built a dw-link fork :lol: but it would be soooo cool

 

Here's the link to some info on the designer.

http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/features/122_0801_gsx_radd_p3/james_parker.html

Interesting read.

 

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Ding! Hit it right on the head. By having zero front dive, you would result in a "push" situation where the bikes front end would want to wash in the turn. we need a certain amount of weight transfer. Although, too much "dive" could possibly result in a "high side" wipe out. It's trying to find the happy medium is where the "art" of tuning comes to play.

 

It's really not the speed of the spring's return, but the force that it is returning at. So in theory, by having both high and low speed circuits on the rebound side, one can set the low speed circuit to minimum( to follow the terrain on small chatter bumps) and the high speed to more substantial setting( to not get bucked off the bike on big hits).

 

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If I knew how to transfer the data from my SPA dyno, I'd show you a graph between the low and high speed circuit. Unfortunately the software won't speak from the dyno to my laptop........#-o