Springs are the most important part of your suspension: without damping you’d be in trouble, but without springs, you’d be lost. Yet people give surprisingly little attention to matching spring rates to their weight and their riding style. In order to be able to make sensible decisions about what different springs might do for you, it’s necessary to think a little more carefully about how they work...
Author - Graham Byrnes PhD
A plain language fun site about the ins and outs of motorcycle suspension including ride height, rebound damping, compression damping, preload adjustments as well as braking and riding tips.
A telescopic history of suspension
Telelever and SaxTrak
Britten's girder forked parallelogram
Pierluigi Marconi and the Bimota Tesi
James Parker and RADD/RATZ
Bakker's QCS
Preload makes the bike sit higher, or lower. It does not make the spring stiffer. So if someone tells you that you should reduce your preload to make the bike feel less harsh, they probably don’t have a clue...
Do you know how 1950 through 1980's front suspension elements, commonly called front forks, work? Well, I will attempt to walk through
suspension developments and attempt to explain how each style works...
