SUSPENSION TUNING

SUSPENSION SET UP & TUNING

SUSPENSION: GETTING THE PERFECT SET-UP

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As motorcycles get more and more complex, it’s easy to think that the science behind the suspension on your bike is almost too much to understand. Yet knowing how your suspension works and what effect the various adjustments have,
will help you get the best out of your riding.  A bad suspension set up can turn your motorcycle into an uncompromising and unpleasant machine, whereas getting it right can improve your riding dramatically and progress your skills to the next level.

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Always check the manual for your bike before making any adjustments.

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THE BASICS 

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Suspension can be broken down into just two essential parts – the spring and the damper.
Both have very different functions but are relatively useless without each other. The spring holds the weight of the machine and serves to absorb impacts from the ground through riding. However, just absorbing impact alone would not be in any use, as the bike would continue to move up and down.

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Consequently damping is used to control the compression off the spring as it moves through the stroke and rebound  damping controls the extension of the fork during extension in a controllable manner over the terrain, maintaining appropriate geometry keeping the chassis in a balance and stable attitude. 

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  TUNING THE SUSPENSION AND CHASSIS

  Tuning your motorcycle can involve suiting the rider weight, speed , ability and type off riding , As well as matching the engine power, riding conditions, track design and characteristics for optimum performance, stability and control.

 Sometimes lowering a bike for a rider to feel comfortable or making the bike more stable in certain conditions, as well as changing the major design of a bike like converting a motocross bike for supermoto or a superbike into a drag race machine.

plays a major role of the tuning proceess.

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