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Podcast: Bikerumor Podcast
Episode: 086 - Chris Canfield explains multi-link suspension designs
Description: If you think mountain bike suspension is a mystery, you're not alone.
From kinematics to anti-squat to compression ratios, there's a lot of terminology piled on top of designs like VPP, Horst Link, CVA, DW Link.Â
Add CBF to that list and you have the suspension design and philosophy of Chris Canfield. He's my guest today and had been designing full suspension mountain bikes for almost 25 years.
We talk about how things work, why multi-linkage bikes work well (as well as why some maybe don't work as well as others), and we try, r...