Take the Sting Out of Any Trail

摘要

Mountain bikers need suspensions with dual personalities: Barreling downhill, they want a soft suspension to absorb bumps; chugging uphill, they want stiff shocks so that their energy transfers to forward motion, not bobbing up and down. Finding that balance usually requires riders to make several manual adjustments. The Float Fit iCTD electronic suspension from California company Fox lets them make changes in half a second. Bikers initiate a shift by rotating a switch on the handlebars. That signals two motors, one on the frame-mounted shock and one on the fork, to turn oil-regulating valves, which restrict or free internal pistons.