| Hopefully one day I will get around to plotting the linkage ratio, by measuring wheel travel against damper rod travel through each millimeter of its movement. That information will then allow me to determine the best spring to use when other factors are being considered, such as weight bias, swingarm length, amount of wheel travel, wheel weight and alike. Even top speed sometimes has to be allowed for.
But as I pick up a Kawasaki ZXR400 road bike tomorrow to start preping for next years lightweight TT, its suspension is going to need looking at closely to see what we need to do to it, as I'm getting fed up with my mate collecting Bronze replicas and hope to build a bike capable of bringing home a silver replica. Would be a ideal project to feature in Pronto if it was a Duke we were preping. |