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Aug 21, 2023 at 19:22
Aug 21, 2023
Welcome to Shock Week 2023 - Mountain Bike Suspension Terminology Explained
The air spring's volume gets smaller and smaller so the spring rate gets higher and higher as the pressure increases. In contrast, a spring (by definition of what a spring is) has the same "rate"-that the force is simply proportional to the compression - no matter what the compression is. That's called Hooke's law (F=-kx). Of course, when a spring is compressed to it's absolute maximum, you can't compress it further, but until then, it's rate is the same.