What’s the Deal with Spot’s Living Link?
Like a lot of things we use today, carbon fiber leaf springs sound sophisticated but are actually based on a design that first showed up a long, long time ago. Back in the mid-1700s, those old English carriageways were rough enough to rattle everyone’s (presumably already rotten) teeth loose, but a bit of comfort came in the form of flat steel bars laid on top of one another with the axle put in the middle of it all.
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The small section of carbon fiber that makes up half of the lower link is almost completely hidden from view by the Ryve’s seat tube and swingarm, but Spot says that it plays a very important role in how the suspension performs.
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