Feb 10 2009
Smooth ride vs Efficiency
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This article throws light on the most prominent confusion that one goes through when buying a mountain bike. That is, whether to buy a bike with suspension or without suspension. If you are the one among them, this article throws light on the pros and cons of mountain bike suspensions and is meant just for you.
Be it car or bike they take you to your destination. There are certain factors which make you more comfortable with cars than with bikes. The same is the case with mountain bikes, be it bikes with suspension or without suspension they both take you to your destination. However the bikes with suspension cost you more than the one without suspension.
You will not understand the difference between them unless you experience a ride with each one. You might go to a showroom to buy a bike with suspension. You will be confused to hear the dealer questioning about if you want a bike with front suspension, back suspension or both. Now what’s the difference again? Simple the more equipped a bike is the higher skills it needs and even higher amount of energy it requires on the side of the rider. If you notice high end users and professional mountain bikers they use only bikes with front suspensions because they need less energy of the rider when compared to the bikes with both suspensions.
If you ride on both the bikes one after the other, you will notice that the bike with dual suspension took more energy for you to reach your destination. Rather if you notice the bike with only front suspension gave you comfort to the same extent as the dual one moreover it absorbed the jerks and shock as the dual one did but took lesser energy on your side. It left helped you reach the same destination with same comfort but with lesser energy surfing. The higher the cost of the bike usually it will mean the higher the quality of the suspension fitted (in very generic terms), it is thought that eliminating the bounce produced by pedalling and therefore energy loss is of paramount importance of a full suspension bike, the more expensive the bike is, in theory the more efficient the bike should be in turning the pedalling motion into forward propulsion.
Look for quality of the suspension system upon the cost. Or we can say go and buy a bike with excellent front suspension system rather than putting the same amount of money in buying a dual suspension bike of lower quality in the same money. Good luck
Adam Peters is the editor of many articles on mountain bike suspension published at http://www.bikecyclingreviews.com .More articles on dual suspension bicycles and cycling at his web.
