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Rimpact Components Added a reply to Rimpact Chain Damper

4/4/2025 2:53am
Hey all – thanks for the great discussion and thoughtful feedback, it’s been great to follow. Just to jump in with some info from our side: The Chain Damper was originally developed for aggressive DH and winch-and-plummet style Enduro riding—especially the kind we do here in the UK with steep climbs and even steeper descents. The standard spring setup is...

Rimpact Components Added a reply to Tuned Mass Dampers and Mountain Bikes

11/17/2024 12:34am
Yes agreed it's long and needs a conventional stem to take up the extra 40mm or so rather than direct mount stems, leaving DH riders with a chimney stack. It'll fit most small enduro bikes with a regular stem and some of the larger headtube DH bikes. A solution to this is being looked at, but the travel of the...
Actually very similar to the approach that Downamics talks about using in their Instagram post above. We recorded data from a range of different rides on varying bikes and trails. Merged the data and cleaned it up a little. We used a fast Fourier transform to order the data in a most to least occurrences fashion. Drew conclusions from this...
Dead Silent, no rattle. Interestingly, ours is sprung much firmer that the counter cycles version in all three frequency set ups we've targeted. It's really cool to see others doing their own data acquisition and analysis of the Countercycle one, I hope ours is put under similar security. The specific frequencies we targeted were derived from a great deal of...