Coil-sprung suspension is a low-stiction, low-maintenance approach to suspending your mountain bike, with less heat build-up than air suspension. However, unlike air suspension (where you just ...

Suspension can be everything in the off-road world. Yeah, a strong engine gets you moving, but suspension keeps you in control so you can use that engine power. The use of coilover shocks, their ...

Combines suppleness and support better than almost any air fork, but it’s heavy and has too few spring-rate options for fine-tuning I previously tested Marzocchi's air-sprung Z1 and while it performed ...

With an initial height of 0.379 in., the 0919-0-15-20-89-14-11-0 spring-loaded pin has a maximum stroke of 0.118 in. Designed for surface-mounting, the spring-loaded pin has a recommended working ...

Today a lot of street-legal vehicles and off-road rigs run modern coil spring suspensions. Coil springs in their various formats have a number of advantages over traditional leaf springs and torsion ...

When designing helical or compression springs, you’ll confront several challenges and trade-offs, especially when it comes to getting the best possible performance from the wire. You will want to use ...

Leaf springs are treated like archaic tech, as they aren’t found under any of the latest industry-leading performance cars, and are often used as a point of reference that shows how “dated” a ...

Most people probably don’t think about springs until one kinks up or snaps, but most of the world’s springs are pretty crucial. The ones that aren’t go by the name Slinky. We all use and encounter ...

A spring compressor is among the most infamous tools available to home auto mechanics. Its job and operation are straightforward: It just squeezes a spring so that you can remove or install it from a ...