"Phil, Squid-in-Training" wrote in
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(PeteCresswell) wrote:
Marzocchi's ETA feature lets the rider lower a 100mm fork by about an
inch and reduce the travel to an inch.

I'm not sure whether the claimed benefit is change in bike attitude,
less energy absorbed by bobbing, or both.


But thinking about the bogging aspect, it seems like it might be a
matter of longer travel through less resistance vs shorter travel
through greater resistance. If that's true maybe the energy
absorbed is a wash.

Anybody?

Work=Force*Distance. You're not exerting more force, and distance is
smaller. Ergo, work is smaller. Work=Energy=Heat=Calories ~= Food


If he was thinking the way I think he was thinking then the force would be
proportionally larger, but in reality it's not.

Greg