Description

Motorcycle manufacturers have to produce a motorcycle at an affordable price for the “average” rider. To achieve this each component must be produced to a strict budget. The fine tolerances required by hydraulic components such as suspension units do not lend themselves to cheap mass production.

We have yet to meet the mystical “average” rider that all bikes are set up for. Every rider has different requirements from their suspension.

When working with race teams we often see that two riders can ride identical bikes with their own preferred suspension settings around a racetrack at lap record pace within a hundredth of a second of each other. If the riders then swap bikes neither can understand how the other gets round the track so fast with those settings.

There is no magical setting that suits all riders.