Ultimate Suspension Tune? SussMyBike Takes the Guessing Out of Setting Up Your Fork

1. Nobody is better qualified than the rider of a bike to determine whether they like the way it handles.
2. It doesn’t take that long to learn how to properly adjust suspension and it doesn’t cost anything.
3. Once you learn how, you can adjust based on tire/psi changes, trail conditions, different types of trails, etc. Relying on a test ride followed by computer analysis removes this flexibility.
4. Not every problem can be resolved by cash and apps; not every product is a response to a real-world problem.

This will be great to ballpark people but sag also does that. You can not digitally determine someone’s tastes though. Even assuming this thing can find the best adjustments for you from a performance aspect, a rider may not really like how that feels.

I’m going to mount this on my bed…

JBikes takes the cake!

Groovy! For most riders, bike setup is a mystery wrapped up in a protective layer of bafflegab. Anything that can help dial in proper setup a bit quicker gets a thumbs-up from me.

How do they deal with the fact the wheel rotates at a different speed based on how much wire is already played out?

They’d need some sort of normalization function, but it’d need to change its scalar approximately constantly!

@i, no they didn’t invent the yoyo pot, but they are developing the app and the application to suspension. Most products aren’t some sort of grand new invention, but an adjustment for the application.

I love how almost everyone is saying this product sucks, you don’t need it, etc. It’s not even out yet, and maybe some people will be interested. This is BikeRumor folks, new products, out there things from time to time. Stop coming here if you don’t like this type of stuff.

*Drops mic*

If nobody is better qualified than the rider to determine if they like the way a bike handles, why do professional motocrossers use data acquisition to dial in suspension? I can think of all manner of professionals in sports where suspension is used that take advantage of it to improve their setup and make them faster.

I’ve had setups that I thought couldn’t get better, then I made a change – what do you know, it can get better! Data can help you get there that much faster. Have you, or someone you know, ever thought their bike fit them perfectly, and then a professional fit made them more comfortable and maybe faster? It’s a bit like that.

I’m not saying this particular product is the answer or that I’ll buy it, but to dismiss the whole category as no one needs or wants, or say it doesn’t take that long to learn how to do it…people that have been tuning car, motorcycle or bike suspensions all their lives are still finding ways to do it better.

will this help me figure out how much air pressure i should have in the tires on my rigid fork fatbike? i’m always stumped on this.

These are string potentiometers. They’ve been used for a long time and I bet every bike suspension manufacturer has a drawer full of broken ones. Problem is that they are not very durable and they are not particularly accurate since the string can go slack if the fork moves faster than the spool can wind string.

But as an end consumer level product for people who don’t actually have the ability or knowledge to pour through millions of data points or actually know what to do with the data this might be an ok product. The app software won’t be able to solve all the problems and issues but it can probably get you closer to a good setup. Consider that those Formula 1, Motocross and MotoGP teams have full time data engineers looking at data coming from these sorts of devices (though none of them use a string potentiometer).

For some riders this is considered a fun part of riding bikes. For others it takes all the fun out of riding a bike. To each their own.

JBikes,
You could use an accelerometer, but you’d need two.. one mounted on each side, and then you’d have to filter out the signal from the bike bouncing up and down AND integrate twice to get relative distance… Seems like a direct distance measurement’s going to be a lot more robust to “noise”.

@Jbikes – Accelerometers can’t tell absolute position so you couldn’t set sag.

Although its nice having accurate sag already in the data for easy comparison.
OK – I’m out. This nerdiness will decrease any already slim chance I had of using my bed mounted unit.

Using “sag” for proper preload adjustment and your “seat of the pants” suspension dyno for proper setup will never net accurate results. Plus, tuning suspension to a particular trail for your riding style (regardless of weight and sag), would be kinda sweet. I’ve ridden motorcycles forever and just about every serious rider/racer’s first mod to make on the bike is to pay TONS to have the suspension custom tuned to their needs. The really serious ones use data acquisition systems that give you all kinds of data including suspension readings. Cyclists are just about 20 years behind on this, so it’s a little hard to accept is all.

That’s for people with too big of a wallet and no clue about their bike. They may get the fork dialed, but still can’t bike worth shit because they lack proper biking skills.

Just mount a gopro on the frame aimed at the shock with a good dose of the actual terrain around it.
Pretty obvious if the shocks packing up or the wheel is out of control or continually soft bottoming.

This sounds good, but how does it work? And what does it actually do??

Just saying it will improve your suspension isn’t actually saying anything at all, I wanna do why I would buy it and what it will actually achieve…

If all it shows are graphes and tables and numbers is there also something there to tell you what it all means and what the changes are??.

PLease give more info

BTW: I think this will be a really useful tool for racing if it works well.