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How are whoops formed?
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[QUOTE="KiwiBird, post: 339072, member: 17232"] Because most suspension can't tell if the wheel is moving up or the frame is moving down damping must be a compromise. Consequently as we gas and brake the wheel is moving up and down even if there are no bumps. Say we gas it out of a turn - we make one fairly deep hole and then a smaller one after it and maybe another after that even smaller - drive force makes a little bit down and roost makes it a little upward. As another bikes hits our holes it deepens/heightens them slightly until we have a whoop or series of them. The whoop depth is mostly determined by the suspension travel - small whoopps come from short travel, large ones from long travel. The more riding on them, the bigger they get. Distance between whoops seems to be influenced by travel, wheelbase and weight - not so much by those factors directly but by the influence they have on damping. Baja race car whoops are generally bigger and spaced further apart. [/QUOTE]
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