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The suspension tuning field is full of myths, misconceptions and guess work. Most internal revalving is done by "educated guessing" followed by seat-of-the-pants testing. The tuner makes internal valving changes based on his previous experience, and the rider tests the bike and provides feedback on its performance. So in essence, the tuner is guessing at the valving change, the rider is guessing at the affect the change had on the bike, and finally, the tuner has to correlate the rider feedback to his valve stack changes. Experienced tuners have spent hundreds of hours repeating this scenario to become proficient at their job. There has to be an easier way.

The concept behind the Suspension Hotline is to put everybody's head together and use available technologies to explore, evaluate and simplify all the various elements involved in suspension tuning. Misconceptions will be replaced with reliable, fact based information, giving riders and tuners the knowledge to dial in their bikes for optimum performance. We're not trying to replace seat of the pants testing, just supplement it.

To develop this new methodology in long travel suspension tuning, we need riders and tuners who have the time, tools and desire to rework their suspension units. The Suspension Hotline will provide detailed valving setups. With the use of our suspension dyno and other technologies we will methodically evaluate and make step-by-step improvements to the settings. The idea is for riders to test ride various valving setups and work with Suspension Hotline tuners to dial in the suspension AND to develop a new methodology in suspension tuning.
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Suspension Hotline Topics

Forum - Discuss suspension related topics
Tuners Handbook - A compilation of riding symptoms and possible causes.
Valve Stacks - Purchase modified valve stacks and work one-on-one with professional suspension tuners
Valving Matrix - A series of valve stacks ordered from soft to stiff based on the actual forces produced by the dampers
Valving Info - Purchase fact based suspension information
VDB - Suspension Hotline for tuners
Lev Ratio - Purchase leverage ratio information including how leverage ratios affect damping and wheel forces
Components - Purchase technical analysis of the various suspension components
Rebuilds - Purchase rebuild info for forks and shocks
Calculators - Purchase access to suspension related formulas and equations assembled in easy to use programs
Dyno - Fork and shock dyno information. Dyno testing and damper blueprinting available

Note: The Suspension Hotline is striving to provide reliable, fact based information, analysis and valve stacks on the most popular current model dirt bike suspensions. Interest will dictate which models and the order the bikes are added into the database.