2011 Maul Tech ATV Advanced Suspension School

Contact info:
            Andy Maul
            217-491-0804
           andy@maultechatv.com
 

Location: 

            Maul Tech ATV

            1884 Spradlin Rd

            Jacksonville, IL 62650

When:

            March 17, 18, 19 2011

Time:

            8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (1/2 to 1 hour break for lunch)

Price:

            $175 per day (Stay as many days as you like, but you must complete Day 1 to continue to Day 2 and Day 3.  A non refundable deposit of $100 is required to book a spot.  I am only allowing 5 people into the class for better 1 on 1 experience.  Dealers are welcome.

What to bring:

-        Helmet

-        Pen/Paper

-        Calculator

-        Your thinking cap

You are more than welcome to stay at my place for free if you have a trailer.  Bikes can be left at the shop overnight if staying in town and have an open trailer.

Syllabus

∙ Review

-          What’s the first thing to do before measuring up a bike?

-          Disadvantages to running too much spring preload?

-          Reason for running different ride heights?

-          How do you check sag?

-          How does castor effect handling?

-          What’s the most major external adjustment that can be made?

-          What’s the proper way to measure X-Over gap?

-          Advantages and disadvantages to running longer or shorter ext. and comp. lengths?

-          Ways to correct shock lengths?

-          What and how does a linkage work?

-          How to calculate linkage progression?

-          How are springs rated individually and how to calculate them?

-          How to calculate combined spring rate of two springs?

-          Advantages to running a dual or triple rate spring setup?

-          When to change your tender spring?

-          How do you want the bike to react when a rider gets on the bike?

-          What is valving directly related to?

-          What are some things that the spring rates we select relate to?

-          Explain different piston designs and what to look for to know how they will react?

∙ Graphing a spring rate curve with crossovers installed by calculations.

∙ Proper way to service and rebuild a shock.

∙ Proper way to access the valving on a  stock shock.

∙ Recording a baseline.

∙ Dissection of an ATV’s measurements to record a baseline.

∙ Proper Description and Terms of a valving stack.

∙ Changes of the valving shim stack and how to verify their change on the dyno.

∙ Explanation of a Shock Dyno Graph.

∙ Needle Centering due to pressure differences.

∙ Different speeds of the shock dyno and what to look for.

∙ Proper shock dyno setup and running.

∙ Dyno a baseline set of shocks and how to calculate and create your own baseline.
∙ Changing MANY different valving stack combinations to get a feel for actual valving                                   

      changes.

∙ Piston bleed.

∙ Student Dissection of an ATV and diagnosis of known problems:

-          Fix extended and compressed lengths.

-          Set correct spring rates.

-          Set correct crossover heights.

-          Dyno shocks and set to baseline.

-          Test and Revalve shocks accordingly.

-          Testing of different piston designs with same valving (stock, digressive, linear).