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[QUOTE="Jeremy Wilkey, post: 702796, member: 17220"] Interesting topic and one that has some interesting observations and comments to be made about how it relates to the other topics.. As many have pointed out it the whole topic is very different. In off-road we worry about bumps and jumps, in Road road we have to get our head around that.. Its about Chassis and geometry before anything else.. We had the whole debate about piston design on the other string the other day. If you look at the leaders in Road Race suspension (IMO) Ohlins they are using incredibly small orficing and preloaded midvalves.. While this would be suicide on offroad the concept lends itself to the environment of road racing where maintaining geometry is so important. As deflection begins the orficing is so small that the shims don't regulate area and then you get a very digressive characteristic. Honda tried this with its Showa forks and shocks.. I don't think its as effective as the Ohlins stuff but clearly this has been the concept behind the designs.. Only as would be expected the result and extent of development is compromised in the Showa as a production system. BR, Jer [/QUOTE]
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