Prototypes, Leverage Rates, and Bad Weather

Forty-five degrees and a steady rain outside all day mean it’s time for suspension design work. Had to dust off Solidworks and retrain myself on everything. I’m back to working on leverage rates and shock positions. The unique orientation of the pivots on what I’ve been calling the “B-series” design led to a lot of debate about that upper rocker and the final location for the shock.

Now I need to find someone to build a prototype. So tricky to bring an idea into the same world that creates a thing like this, but I think there’s merit to the design, and I really need to be able to test a rolling prototype of this system.