BioMax
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I have been trying to push the "half travel" thing over "ride height" for some time now, but it only seems to have cought on to a few folks that genuinely "get it." I say half travel because every suspension has geometric changes through it's travel and if you do your best to set everything up as perfect as possible at half travel, then the suspension geometry only changes half of what it would over it's full travel. If you set everything up at "ride height" what consistency is there to how the geometry will all end up when the suspension is all the way up or all the way down?
On a properly set up Watts link, both bars will be parallel to the ground a half travel, but the center-link itself will be over-center. The center link will be straight up and down only at 1/4 and 3/4 travel. Also because there are 2 bars limiting movement, the links need only be half as strong as a pannard bar. It