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Message: [QUOTE="High Lord Gomer, post: 1131282, member: 16469"] The effect is the same, but the difference is in how it is done. Pre-loading is similar to doing a bunny-hop with a bicycle. You push the bike down to give extra compression to the suspension on the jump face then "jump" up. This gets you moving up before the bike so that the bike's rebound is pushing mostly just it's weight instead of you and the bike. Doing this can get you a lot higher, but it requires fairly precise timing. AAMOF, you can preload early before hitting a small jump or whoop to extend the suspension before hitting it. This will result in not being thrown up in the air by the bump/whoop as much. This is useful when entering a whoop section where you don't want to jump up and into them but rather you want to skim across the top. Seat jumping, however, does not require precise timing since you are basically just along for the ride and you are counting on the transition from flat ground to the angled jump face to compress the suspension. If you're standing, your legs automatically compensate for this and you crouch more as you hit the jump then extend again once airborne. If you stay seated, all of your weight goes into compressing the suspension. As the suspension then rebounds it has to throw you and the bike skyward, giving you more height but not as much as preloading from a standing position. When preloading, if you preload too early, you have the opposite of the desired effect because you have effectively unloaded the suspension before hitting the jump. Preload too late and you are pushing the bike away as it is already rebounding and you can become separated from the bike. [/QUOTE]

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