Triconian

Glad they come in my two favourite colours, Nero and Pregio.

Force response to velocity input**

@lkubica: Right, but the ifp or bladder pressure has no influence on the volume of oil the rod displaces. Therefore, if you compressed the bladder fast or slowly it would always push back with essentially the same force. You can almost think of it as a spring in series with the main air spring. That’s not damping, which is a force response to input, and is what this article makes it sound like it’s doing. IMO DVO should be setting the ifp pressure as low as possible to not have cavitation for the shim stack and velocity they expect, not leave it up to the consumer who should be tuning spring rate using the much larger air spring volume

Increasing the bladder pressure doesn’t resist the oil more, it prevents cavitation from occurring behind the piston. Cavitation is bad for seals and damping performance @ stroke reversal, so I’m not sure why you’d ever want to run low enough bladder pressure to allow it to occur at common shaft velocities…

@gafoto: interesting, thanks for the feedback. I’m going for a relatively budget/burly build so weight could add up quick. Do you have a parts list for your build?

@brianpark: Cool, thank you! Appreciate all the awesome content from you and the entire pinker team this year.