The suspension tuning field is full of myths, misconceptions and guess work. Valve stacks are twisted and tweaked, but no one ever shares what they have done or why. The tuner makes internal valving changes based on his previous experience, and the rider tests the bike and provides feedback on its performance. Experienced tuners have spent hundreds of hours repeating this scenario to become proficient at their job. But difficulties can arise even for an experienced tuner when valving changes don't behave as predicted. The tuner has to decide if the valving change didn't target the expected area or if the rider feedback is inconsistent.
New tuners can look forward to the countless hours they will spend learning this process. There's no short cut to experience, or any way to work around it.
That is, until now!
Valving Logic is working hard to change that. We use the latest technologies to compare and analyze the the different valving configurations to get a better understanding of the overall performance of the damper. In-depth analysis allows us to determine what each individual component in the fork or shock is contributing to the damping curve. After comparing hundreds of stacks on all the different bikes, you begin to see patterns in the different shim stack configurations that allow you to control the damping curve in many different ways. It would be next to impossible to achieve this depth of analysis by shim swapping and seat-of-the-pants testing.
We are offering riders and tuners access to this information through this web site. We have different packages available depending on tuning experience and what you are looking for.
The design and creation of this site takes a lot of time and work. We are always interested in meeting riders or tuners with web site design and database management skills.
