How does fork suspension work?

It works like the front suspension on a motorcycle. The bottom part of the fork, which holds the wheel, fits over the tubes that connect the fork to the frame. When the fork moves up (when the bike hits a bump), the spring gets compressed and the piston forces fluid through the orifice.

What is RockShox compression?

Compression damping regulates the force that moves a fork or shock through its travel.

How do air forks work?

An air spring is the more popular spring type on more expensive forks, which sees the spring rate controlled by air pressure. The damper is there to both counter and assist the spring. Without the damper, the fork would compress and then uncontrollably return.

How does rockshox motion control work?

Jump past the break to see how they work to control the compression… Unlike many other suspension forks, Rockshox’s Motion Control mostly eschews shim stacks in favor of simple ports. So, when you turn the blue compression knob at the top of the right fork leg, you’re changing the size of the oil flow port.

How does a damper work?

A damper has a piston which moves inside a sealed, oil-filled cylinder with the up-and-down movement of the wheel. There are narrow control passages and one-way valves in the piston, which allow oil to flow through it from one chamber to another – but only very slowly.

What is LSC and HSC?

• LSC is for “terrain”, like rollers, g-outs, and berms (and lurches due to rapid brake application). It’s also the one you feel when pumping, jumping, and “working” the bike. • HSC is for “roughness”, like roots and rocks at normal speeds, bumpy dirt at high speeds, and landing jumps.

What is damping in cycling?

Damping is the conversion of unwanted chassis motion into heat inside of a hydraulic damper. Then it gets more complicated. More than one journalist friend—on two wheels or four—has reported being given a vehicle to test on track, then found that it does some things much better, and a few things worse.