Coil-sprung suspension is a low-stiction, low-maintenance approach to suspending your mountain bike, with less heat build-up than air suspension. However, unlike air suspension (where you just ...

For model year 2025, RockShox are introducing not only an updated version of the Super Deluxe air shock, but also a brand new RockShox Vivid Coil shock. What’s new, and how do they perform out on the ...

The 2023 RockShox Lyrik’s redesigned chassis is fitted with the brand’s all-new Charger 3 damper and DenbonAir+ air spring with trail-chatter absorbing ButterCups, all in a bid to narrow its focus.

To start, the idea of a coilover shock is pretty simple. A coil spring (or two or more as in dual-rate or triple-rate coilovers) is mounted through various methods to a shock or strut. The coil spring ...

Introduction Have you ever played with a Slinky, used a pinball machine, written with a click pen or ridden in a car? If so, then you have made use of a spring! Springs are in machines all around us ...

We experimentally study the effects of a uniform electric field on the conformation of single DNA molecules. We demonstrate that a moderate electric field (∼200 V/cm) strongly compresses isolated DNA ...

It's interesting to look back over the years and note how the setups have changed for both dirt and asphalt racing. There's even a little bleed-over from one to the other, believe it or not. I've seen ...