Spot The Suspension – probably our hardest quiz yet!

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by Hannah Dobson November 25, 2023 35

Maybe this time we’ve actually beaten you. Surely this is too hard? Can anyone get more than 20 right?!

Phil from Kinematic Bike did a whole pile of sketch studies while he was working on the design for his Coyote FSt (be sure to check out the bike check!). He’s kindly let us use his diagrams for this quiz. Good luck!

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This topic has 35 replies, 33 voices, and was last updated 4 months ago by Neal Taylor.

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Spot The Suspension – probably our hardest quiz yet!
stwhannah
Full Member

I laid this quiz out and still only got 14 😂

Posted 5 months ago

seadog101
Full Member

What? No Liteville willyChopper?

Posted 5 months ago

sillyoldman
Full Member

16/23 meh.

kept getting Canyon and Spesh mixed up.

Posted 5 months ago

lister
Full Member

13. Started to guess towards the end!

Posted 5 months ago

vinnyeh
Full Member

I was hoping for URT, least that way I’d have been able to recognise one of them.

Posted 5 months ago

doomanic
Full Member

14 here with a lot of guessing…

Posted 5 months ago

convert
Full Member

It wouldn’t help me in the slightest, as I’m not obsessive enough to know one brand from another to that extent……but….a key to what triangle, square, circle and circle with a cross in actually mean might help. Or is this one of those things where if you know you know; and if you don’t know best you leave it to others….

Posted 5 months ago

Gribs
Full Member

I’m trying to work out which bikes some of them relate to. The faux bar Specialized and Trek in particular. Trek have been on the concentric rear axle/pivot for about 15 years and Horst link is Specializeds thing if they’re not just using flex stays.

Posted 5 months ago

Gribs
Full Member

Square is the rear axle, circles are pivots, Circles with crosses in are attached to the frame, Triangles indicate either end of the shock, and arrows indicate the directions of movement or rotation.

Posted 5 months ago

Yak
Full Member

15…. not too bad?

Posted 5 months ago

Bruce
Full Member

Couldn’t get one!

I think it’s because we don’t actually favour full suspension bikes as they have lots of bits you don’t need which need to be maintained.

Each to their own.

Posted 5 months ago

benpinnick
Full Member

That was tough, 18/23. Probably could have more than one answer for a couple of them, especially Specialized who’ve had so many suspension designs over the years.

Posted 5 months ago

leegee
Full Member

9, got the obvious ones.

Posted 5 months ago

chrismac
Full Member

13 missed the trek because the abp isn’t very clearly drawn

Posted 5 months ago

swanny853
Full Member

17. Agree on the Trek as that’s what made me put something else.

Also, is number 1 a specialized with a seatstay pivot?

Posted 5 months ago

johncoventry
Full Member

No Maverick.

Posted 5 months ago

chickenman
Full Member

@seadog101: STW is definately racist against Litevilles, have noticed that over the years!

Posted 5 months ago

seadog101
Full Member

@chickenman

Not ment to be!

If I was wanting a FS bike, they’re what I’d be buying. Look nice and the engineering of the design is sound.

Posted 5 months ago

mashr
Full Member

Another 18 here – enjoyed that one, although putting in that Jamis thing was mean

Posted 5 months ago

ads678
Full Member

Scanned down the list, no Orange, gave up!

Posted 5 months ago

frankconway
Full Member

As my bikes are…road/CX/hardtail/rigid SS this little quiz is a bit irrelevant (to me).

Posted 5 months ago

duncancallum
Full Member

11!

Posted 5 months ago

funkrodent
Full Member

13. I knew two (and still managed to get one of them wrong). Inspired guesswork, should probably buy a lottery ticket

Posted 5 months ago

scuttler
Full Member

Scanned down the list, no Orange, gave up!

👆

Posted 5 months ago

P20
Full Member

14/23 which is looking about average so far!

Posted 5 months ago

cookeaa
Full Member

13, recognised some, most of the rest I guessed at not really enough of a geek to even know who ‘Forbidden’ even are TBH…

Posted 5 months ago

kayak23
Full Member

Looked at the first one.
Lost the will to live 😂

Posted 5 months ago

robertajobb
Full Member

Where’s the hardtail?

Posted 5 months ago

joebristol
Full Member

There are 2 Specialized designs with a seatstay pivot just above the dropout (rather than Horst link) – what bikes are those? Or are they meant to replicate a flex stay?

Posted 5 months ago

momo
Full Member

21/23 proving that I’m far too much of a bike bore

Posted 5 months ago

powerbenny
Full Member

I got 15 which amazes me as I guessed at least half and expected to get fewer than average. Maybe I have been reading too many MTB websites after all.

Posted 5 months ago

monkeyboyjc
Full Member

16 – had a brain fart towards the end.

Posted 5 months ago

AlexSimon
Full Member

Great quiz! 15/23 for me. I really forgot how many Specialized variations there were.
The only ones I was 100% on were Knolly, Yeti and Propain 🙂

Posted 4 months ago

K
Full Member

I got the trek but the diagram is wrong for the rear axle / pivot.

Posted 4 months ago

torchtaylor
Full Member

19. quite pleased with that

Posted 4 months ago

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