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benconnor Added a reply to Suspension Data Acquisition

8/2/2026 9:26pm
I have a hosted demo (read-only) version of by analysis software live at demo.bodaqs.net . No installation needed, just follow the link. If you want, there are some short familiarization videos on YouTube, here . As usual, I welcome and encourage all feedback. I'm aiming for a quality product here, and I'm grateful for the insight others have brought to...

NightRider_2000 Liked a reply to forum topic Suspension Data Acquisition

8/1/2026 3:47am
This is a great thread and I just recently found it thanks to benconnor. Here is a system I have been working on for almost a year. My Hackster.io story Has become kind of an obsession but a lot of great learning and overall fun. Not really sure where to take it long term but regardless interested in others' thoughts. I make no promises my decisions are the best ones. Just ideas I wanted to try and improvements I have made over the last year. Also, I have been following this topic for years since having an instrumented bike has...
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benconnor Added a reply to Suspension Data Acquisition

7/15/2026 12:04am
Time for a project update! A lot has been going on. First, the hardware has evolved. I've done a major redesign to make the logger more robust and easier to build. It now supports up to 8 analog channels, plus digital on I2C and a UART connector for external GPS. The firmware has moved a long way too. It now...

benconnor Added a reply to Suspension Data Acquisition

7/8/2026 8:53pm
The point about filtering (especially) still stands, but there's no reason except convention to be stuck on histograms. Here's the old favourites rendered as cumulative frequency distributions. The little overlaid bars show median, interquartile range, P95 and max values. Personally I think that tells the story quite well.

benconnor Added a reply to Suspension Data Acquisition

7/6/2026 3:58pm
I'm certainly no suspension expert but I've tuned a few things, from engines to inkjet printers. I think the First Rule of Tuning is that whatever you aren't measuring is the thing that will screw you 🙂

benconnor Added a reply to Suspension Data Acquisition

7/5/2026 4:27am
My $0.02 on Jordi and DAQ... He's clearly not an idiot, but neither are the teams running DAQ at world cup level. Most likely, they're both right. Jordi sits in the Fox stand and deals with whatever walks through the door, under enormous time pressure. There's probably 3/5 of 5/8 he doesn't know about how Fox product behaves, both through...

benconnor Added a reply to Suspension Data Acquisition

6/29/2026 4:50pm
Quite so: there's a fundamental difference between those methods. Characterising each stroke (which my system does, by the way) carries another set of gotchas: what counts as a stroke? Real suspension data doesn't look like a neat sine wave. You need to allow for some hysteresis near the stroke end points: if you use a strict 'velocity crosses zero' test...

moridinbg Liked a reply to forum topic Suspension Data Acquisition

6/29/2026 4:32pm
So I spoke with one of our better local tuners and he kept mentioning the BYB position velocity graph so here it is. I am yet to understand how to properly read into it, I have been looking mostly into the Damping pyramid so far. I agree with @TheSuspensionLabNZ that the BYB traces can be very hard to read, so I added the option to show it as a heatmap too I also added video support that syncs with the telemetry timeline. This was super important to me and I bought my first ever action cam for it! Especially on...
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Treloid Liked a reply to forum topic Suspension Data Acquisition

6/17/2026 5:01pm
"Honey, I shrunk the DAQ!" First testride with the new Trazer V2.2 and the new Sensors. About 50 % smaller Trippled Battery capacity Standalone USB-C charging port Beeper for UX support Two Buttons with LED Front Sensor is now a "standard" linear potentiometer with a carbon tube "casing" Re-designed rear sensor that now has a bearing instead of plastic on plastic with small air gaps. Works great! Edit: Another overlay video for those interested. Also with a pretty stiff fork setup regarding dynamic sag (21%) ;-) https://youtu.be/1LCTslCTWLQ?is=856_7CwAul5PZ51R
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benconnor Added a reply to Suspension Data Acquisition

6/12/2026 3:09pm
Now that's interesting. That data is filtered at 100Hz. Filtering at 30Hz brings those speed peaks down a lot - around 2000 in rebound, 3500 front compression, still ~6000 rear compression. Trap for the unwary there.

TheSuspensionLabNZ Liked a reply to forum topic Suspension Data Acquisition

6/12/2026 2:58pm
Yeah I was going to pretty much say the same things as @Treloid - both ends look pretty stiff, average position wouldn't be completely out of possibility on a WC DH bike but for enduro its very firm. And the peak speeds are definitely excessive - again a DH bike might peak around 8m/s, and very high compression speeds for enduro would be around 7. I remember Darren at Push saying somewhere the highest he has seen on a world cup was 9m/s. Rebound too - typically stiff springs with generate high rebound speeds and lower compression speeds but the...
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benconnor Added a reply to Suspension Data Acquisition

6/11/2026 7:45pm
Graphs are pretty similar across the runs; this set is typical: What stands out to me: -Generally running pretty firm, especially in the front. Dynamic sag ~20% (F) / 25% (R). -Peak rebound speeds are very quick (but would come down a bit running softer spring rates). -Rear compression max speed is very high, and the rear uses more travel...

benconnor Added a reply to Suspension Data Acquisition

6/11/2026 7:43pm
OK, interested to see how y'all read this data. I've put my own conclusions and proposed tuning directions at the bottom... Rider is a local first-year elite enduro racer who was top of the heap in U19s. Bike is a 2026 megatower with a Zeb and Super Deluxe coil. Trails are typical Perth Hills goodness: short, rough, rocky and moderately...

sweaty_techie Liked a reply to forum topic Suspension Data Acquisition

6/8/2026 9:11pm
Jumping in to make a couple of points. You can't actually compare the first image to the second and reliably deduce an answer for most questions as you have said they are different trails, different riders, different suspension and surely different settings/setups, different durations and different environments. It doesn't help that the plots are different scales. These 2 images show absolutely everything different (maybe the ambient temperature was the same???), and so any difference in output could be from any difference in input. Just because something is obvious to see in the plots, doesn't mean there's an obvious reason/fix. "...
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TheSuspensionLabNZ Liked a reply to forum topic Suspension Data Acquisition

6/8/2026 4:24pm
Yeah the shape of the curve can tell you how damped it is, eg an overdamped system might peak quite early in the travel then slow down while an underdamped bike will stay high or even accelerate further in to the travel. Can also be used to see how ramp up or bottom out systems are working and also rebound damping. Peak rebound speeds normally happen just after it reaches bottom out and is extending, so you can see if low rebound speeds are being caused by too much damping or if it isn't reaching far enough in to the...
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descendnow Liked a reply to forum topic Suspension Data Acquisition

6/7/2026 9:16pm
Yeah mainly the shape of the lower envelope in the first image compared to the second.
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benconnor Added a reply to Suspension Data Acquisition

6/7/2026 5:12pm
How does one read those charts? I mean, I know what they're showing but there's a lot of data density there. Is the shape of the envelope what you're looking at?

TheSuspensionLabNZ Liked a reply to forum topic Suspension Data Acquisition

5/22/2026 2:55pm
Go the light mode! I thought I was in the minority with everything coming in dark mode these days
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moridinbg Liked a reply to forum topic Suspension Data Acquisition

5/20/2026 12:21pm
Credit goes to sghctoma who originally did the rotational sensors. I have ordered some linear sensors, but I don't think I can fit anything in the SC tunnel... I got tired of the cave look, so now with light mode! Also - lots of quality of live improvements for the sessions. The telemetry plots can be reordered, minimized and embedded in one another. They are also scrollable and resizable with dividers Holding down Option/Alt while zooming in/out of the plots makes it much slower and precise. Holding Shift while scrolling in the plot area will skip zooming the plot under...
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