Motorcycle Suspension | How does it work?

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I explain how a motorcycles suspension work from the ground up. This includes:
- Tire traction
- Springs & dampers
- Motorcycle geometry
- Telescopic forks, including conventional & upside down varieties
- Linkage suspension
- Spring rates
- Ride height
- Suspension sag
- Fork oil
- Compression damping
- Rebound damping

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[viki]

I would love I video like this but on transmission!!! WHAT IS CHAIN TENSION!! why is it important... Why dont all race bikes use belts instead? Or shafts for that matter...

[tekjess_]

This is another video I will have to watch 7 times over the next month to fully understand it. Keep 'em coming.

[kevenld]

Motorcycle Suspension for Dummies.


Very easy to understand. More videos of this type are welcome!

[mopedlyfe]

Man you've been a great help so far, I've been doing an internship on the rear suspension design and your all your vids basically summarized the 3 months worth of theory in less than an hour in total. Thanks for sharing!

[MrYutoob]

this also explains a lot about car suspension as well.

[AndrewYakovenko]

Great video as usual! However, there's a mistake at 7:45. Moving the wheel axle forward decreases the trail because the contact patch moves forward while the steering axle stays the same.

[braunvanvarden]

Suspension was also the key reason behind Williams winning consecutive F1 World Championships in the 80s

[milindsakurkar]

I'm from India I have seen most of all of your videos and recently I have purchased a brand new hayabusa and enjoying very very very much with ur helpful videos and I just love to see ur videos every evening and it is my daily routine nowadays I just love it. Love from India. Thank you for all the useful information you r giving to us 👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[dandil]

Triple clamp offset can be theoretically in both directions. moving the front axle forward lowers* trail.

[VolodymyrPavlyuk]

Another amazing video, Mike! Suspension is such a broad topic and you managed to squeeze its basics into a relatively short video – that's a tremendous work!
Having signal processing background (both digital and analogue) I was really happy that Tony Foale in his book described suspension as a frequency filter. So I would recommend that book as well

[whitefields]

Well done here ... a complex and mis-understood subject explained very well. Most folk focus on the engine and leave ride and handling issues till last.

[aliallen]

Your videos are awesome, I learn so much. The way you explain detail is easy for the average person to learn what you are sharing.
Thank you!

[Lightningcc]

Hats off .. Motorcycle dynamics is explained in 25 mins . Great thanks

[phuctran.]

Now that the suspension got covered for quite a while, may I ask when will you be covering on the topic of brake system? Since I do not see much video talking about them, mostly on cars or bicycle and in my experience knowledge from those fields do not translate as well to motorcycle. Hope you will make a video about brake system soon. Thanks for putting so much effort into making these video <3

[MultiGuitarman]

Easy to follow explanations! The rebound and compression examples at the end helped tremendously on how to set up the bike! any more of them?

[MotoTrooper]

Good Lesson on suspensions
And a salute to all those fallen Moto GP Riders

[kazabubu]

My 2 cents: @7:27 "moving the forks up in the triple clamps" is essentially lowering the front end. This will "pull" the wheel towards the center of gravity, which will reduce the rake and therefore the trail as well (since it is measured with respect to the vertical through the front wheel axis). I think this way is more intuitive.

[ruanrocharbr]

bro, you're exactly like me haha but i'm with cars. the way you explain, the examples you use, most of the times you use motogp as an example, and thats me, i always use formula 1 or GT as an example of something haha

thanks for that video, although im into cars, i got interested in bikes and i'd like to know more about em, and maybe i could drive a motorcycle in the future. Nice contents on this video!

[baneoffsight]

Brilliant Mr Mike hoping to see further in depth analysis of suspension - especially around the track and how to set it up for a persons riding ability, as well as symptoms of a bad suspension set up (i.e. tyre wear, weight distribution, rider feel, etc.)

[CyberGasty]

Great video as usual. Kind of reader's digest of Dave Moss on suspension.