Press Release

Telemetry For Everybody - Introducing SussMyBike 13

iceman2058
10/30/2015 4:54am

UPDATE: This project has now been officially funded on Kickstarter, with more to come if they meet their stretch funding goals - check it out for more information on the product, or to back the project if it's something that rocks your boat.

Telemetry in mountain biking is nothing new, you've probably seen all kinds of contraptions strapped to the suspension of the pros' bikes at the races. More recently however, people are beginning to develop smaller, off-the-shelf solutions suitable for use by any rider, such as "ShockWiz" which was launched earlier this year. While Shockwiz works by detecting changes in pressure in the air spring, SussMyBike uses a cable stretched between the crown and the lowers to measure suspension movement as you ride. The data collected by the device is analyzed by an app, which can then make suggestions for changes to make to your suspension settings. The solution is in the early development phase, but we're definitely looking forward to seeing it mature, and we'll be testing a unit as soon as they become available. In the meantime, check out the launch video and details from the founders below:

Press Release:

​A Scottish start-up company SussMyBike is releasing an innovative new mountain bike product via a crowdfunding campaign next month (November 2015).

SussMyBike is a device that monitors mountain bike suspension and provides the rider with feedback on how to improve their suspension performance.

Alan Mason, inventor of SussMyBike, explained: “We have designed SussMyBike to addresses a pain point for many riders who want to set up their bikes effectively. Tuning the suspension on your mountain bike for best results can take hours of trial and error and lots of head scratching.SussMyBike – developed with support from the Mountain Bike Centre of Scotland (MBCOS) and Edinburgh and Napier Universities – takes away the guesswork and gives you the facts to adjust your bike properly.“

SussMyBike is a small electronic device that fits on the bike and analyses the suspension, then tells the rider the best settings to use via a smartphone app. The gadget will work on virtually all mountain bike using AIR or COIL suspension, and the SussMyBike is confident it can come up with a solution to adapt it to most rear shocks as well as forks.

Alan added: “Developing and testing the device been a real collaborative effort. We have worked with many excellent partners including the Mountain Bike Centre of Scotland, sports scientists at Napier University and Edinburgh University FabLab to name just a few. We have had input from great engineers with experience in materials and electronics design and positive feedback from riders ranging from novices to professional Enduro World Cup series riders who will put SussMyBike through its paces out on the trails. We still have some final tweaks to do so we hope a successful crowdfund will get us over the finishing line by providing the funds to bring this exciting new product to market.”

“We at the Mountain Bike Centre of Scotland (MTBCoS) have been working with Alan for the past year and are delighted to see the progress he has made with SussMyBike. The MTBCoS has supported SussMyBike with market research, focus groups, learning journey trip to Eurobike and access to expertise from Scottish Enterprise. SussMyBike have a fantastic product that can help find the holy grail for mountain bikers – how to get the most out of your bike.”  - Danny Cowe

Case Study

We were recently featured in the Edinburgh University Research and Innovation Infinite magazine.

Anyone wanting to contribute to the SussMyBike crowdfund and get the device at a discounted price can do so at our Kickstarter campaign in early November. Riders can head on over to www.sussmybike.com and register to be updated when we launch.

More information on SussMyBike at www.sussmybike.com
Back the project:Kickstarter Page
Email - info@sussmybike.com

About SussMyBike Ltd

SussMyBike was founded in July 2014 with help from Entrepreneurial Spark, the world’s largest free business accelerator for early stage and growing ventures http://www.entrepreneurial-spark.com/.


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Rconroy
10 years ago
I wonder how this compares to that other kickstarter that used shock pressure to monitor suspension usage, (ShockWiz)
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scarface
10 years ago
you mean beyond all the obvious differences you could read about in the 2 articles?
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Rconroy
10 years ago
Right, theres always more than one way to skin a cat, I would be curious to see back to back comparisons between both products, see which is more accurate, and which is more easily used with their corresponding app.
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liquidSpin
10 years ago
Looks interesting albeit a bit sketchy on how it actually knows. A few bumps and speed of the bumps?
Also the way it checks the suspension can only be used for front forks. Wouldn't it be more ideal if it could help tune BOTH front and rear suspensions?
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iceman2058
10 years ago
In fact, it will work both for shocks and forks, as confirmed by the inventor.
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liquidSpin
10 years ago
I see. I wonder how it would work on so many different types of rear shocks and frames.

Maybe a small preview in their video would have been helpful.

Next question will be actual cost if this gets the funding they need.
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app-uncture
10 years ago
I always thought of doing something like this to go with my app (Bike Setup), but I always thought of doing it with bluetooth accelerometer things and then use some fancy maths to work out the difference in movement, unfortunately I don't have the time, hardware or ability to do any of that! I'm convinced its possible, one sensor at the top of the fork, one at the bottom, one at either end of the shock and maybe even near the centre of the rear wheel.
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Bigburd
10 years ago
So you know how much travel you use, how fast it moves etc , but what do you then do with that information ? Is there some optimum shaft speed vs travel used ratio to aim for ? Am I missing some thing or is this mostly useless unless you have a very indepth knowledge of suspension dynamics ?
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liquidSpin
10 years ago
The whole point of it is to inform you and give you suspension settings to improve your ride quality.

At least I hope. Given the information it provides theoretically you can tune your suspension to its best.
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iceman2058
10 years ago
As far as we understand it, there is an app containing a bunch of algorithms that work out if your suspension settings are optimized or not and tell you how to adjust them if they are not, based on shaft travel/velocity etc. The point being that you DON'T need indepth knowledge of what the raw data translates to.
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TBubier
10 years ago
Hopefully these nice folks change the name of the company right quick cause that is an awful name. Anyways I wish them the best of luck but I really hope they get rid of that terrible name. Carry on.