Why the change to a different suspension type?
It really comes down to the details and where you can take a design. Horst Link bikes can do amazing things. They are active under braking and active under pedaling plus can be built light, but there are limits. Any 4-bar is constrained to a relatively fixed travel arc. You can change the arc with the pivot locations, but it’s still a constant arc. With a dual link bike, we have greater flexibility to change that arc at different points in the travel to optimize certain characteristics at certain points. If we wanted to, it would be easy to just about perfectly match the characteristics of my previous four-bar designs, but the DW-link allows us to take things further. With the DW-link, we can make the bike pedal better and get increased traction in the beginning part of the travel as well as achieving much better square edge bump performance then a Horst-Link bike. We still maintain that active feel while keeping braking forces out of the equation. The other big thing that has always b
