Timeline for Air suspension unit for relatively low mass
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| Mar 29, 2014 at 0:03 | vote | accept | Grote | ||
| Mar 27, 2014 at 22:59 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackBicycles/status/449319801643876352 | ||
| Mar 27, 2014 at 22:44 | comment | added | Nuі | Stiction is going to be a big issue with fork too - it may take more force than the 3kg mass can supply to get the fork to move at all. | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 22:43 | comment | added | Nuі | The usual answer is a lever to bring the force up to something that the suspension can deal with. If you got a rear shock unit and had a pivot just in front of the seatpost/top tube joint that might work. Or just use an elastomer there. | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 21:27 | answer | added | Chris H | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 19:47 | comment | added | Batman | What kind of terrain are you riding over? | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 19:09 | answer | added | Daniel R Hicks | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 18:42 | answer | added | Batman | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 18:37 | comment | added | DWGKNZ | Air pressures provided by companies are only estimates, to set up a fork you would need to find the appropriate amount of sag through trial and error, here is a set up movie pinkbike.com/news/technical-tuesday-setting-sag-2010.html . To achieve what you want you may find you end up with too little air for the spring to be effective as you think. Also, what is more important to your design is the damping effect of the suspension. You don't want oscillation. This would be more complicated for low weight and would involve oil volume and viscosity. I don't how you'd compensate for this. | |
| Mar 27, 2014 at 18:28 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 27, 2014 at 18:10 | history | asked | Grote | CC BY-SA 3.0 |