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Old 02-Apr-2005, 00:06
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All ok providing there are no bumps in the braking area, which was the down fall of most of the Antidive systems. Where the object was to seperate the suspension from the braking forces allowing it to do its job of soaking up the bumps
How much fork travel is left after heavy braking, why leave any at all unless you intend to cope with the odd bump. say you leave 5mm and the wheel hits a bump that uses a futher 4mm of travel, if the wheel weight was then doubled so that 8 mm of travel was used you may find a spring change may be in order.
MotoX bikes have far more suspension travel than Road bikes not because they brake harder or are heavier but because they have to deal with bigger bumps the contribution from bumps towards the eventual deflection of the spring is major,
keeping the rear wheel in contact with the ground and constantly driving the bike forward is the main aim of the rear suspension, the more reactive the suspension can be the better.
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