Shock Absorbers and Active Riding
How do the shock absorbers and fork of the mountain bike behave while active riding ?
The video below describes their behavior during the upward momentum, which is necessary to be able to perform several active riding actions in MTB.
To optimize energy and improve the technical gesture, it is useful to understand the response of the damping elements to our push actions. Generally, a shock absorber can be described with the spring-damper model, that is, the set of an elastic element, which accumulates energy, and a damping element, which serves to dissipate it.
A momentum performed by the rider is "absorbed" by the damping elements as if it were energy coming from a shock, and this can impair the success of the action.
In the video, advice is given on how to reduce this inconvenience...
For any information, to suggest a topic or to simply have your say, find the contacts you can write to.
The video below describes their behavior during the upward momentum, which is necessary to be able to perform several active riding actions in MTB.
To optimize energy and improve the technical gesture, it is useful to understand the response of the damping elements to our push actions. Generally, a shock absorber can be described with the spring-damper model, that is, the set of an elastic element, which accumulates energy, and a damping element, which serves to dissipate it.
A momentum performed by the rider is "absorbed" by the damping elements as if it were energy coming from a shock, and this can impair the success of the action.
In the video, advice is given on how to reduce this inconvenience...
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- Why can shock absorbers, if the right actions are not taken, hinder our active driving ?
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For any information, to suggest a topic or to simply have your say, find the contacts you can write to.