How do you measure the travel on a mountain bike?

April 24th, 2006 Posted in Cycling | 6 Comments »

Paramedic Chance Jackson asked:


How do you measure the travel of a mountain bike? for both front shock and rear shock?

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6 Responses to “How do you measure the travel on a mountain bike?”

  1. Bob A Says:
    April 26th, 2006 at 1:33 am

    Look up the manufactures spec sheet for the shock, or look up the bike itself.

  2. brianjames92 Says:
    April 28th, 2006 at 4:44 pm

    i dont think it can be measured just check what shocks and forks you’re using and check the manufactuers website it should all be there

  3. sfr1224 Says:
    April 28th, 2006 at 6:18 pm

    Most people measure the travel of the fork. For full suspension bikes, fork and rear suspension travel are usually matched.

    Keep in mind, depending on the design of a full suspension bike, shock travel may be only a fraction of the actual rear suspension travel. For example, due to the design of the rocker arms on my bike’s suspension, the shock only has a couple inches of compression, but the rear suspension has 5 inches of travel. Thus, it may be misleading to measure the length of the shock.

    Hope this helps.

  4. cycle guy Says:
    May 2nd, 2006 at 12:53 am

    Rear suspension is difficult to measure. But fork sus. is easy. Simply put a zip tie on the slider firmly so it doesn’t easily slip. Get a friend and with one on each side of the bike put all your weight on the handlebars. You should be able to push the fork all the way down. Now while one of you holds the front end of the bike off the ground the other can measure from the wiper up to were the zip tie was pushed. Holding the front end up will include the sag of the fork as well which is included in the travel number.

  5. extitude Says:
    May 2nd, 2006 at 9:46 pm

    The actual travel on a bike is the shock,seat,tires,tire air,etc…
    It’s hard to measure.
    You can easilly measure your forks travel by using a tiewrap.
    This cannot be done on a rear suspension as the travel depends entirely on the frame and the stroke of the rear shock used.

    I hope my input can be of assistance to you in some way

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    March 10th, 2011 at 8:15 am

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