An electrically actuated component of a bicycle includes a first controller configured to receive a data stream from a second controller. The data stream includes one or more packets received by the first controller. For each of the one or more packets received by the first controller, the first controller is configured to identify a number of the one or more packets of the data stream received by the first controller, and compare the identified number of packets to a predetermined threshold number of packets. After all packets of the one or more packets of the data stream have been received by the first controller, the first controller is configured to initiate, based on the respective comparison, an action of the electrically actuated component or another electrically actuated component of the bicycle when the identified number of packets is less than the predetermined threshold number of packets.

A saddle riding vehicle includes a swing arm in which front ends of arm sections and supporting a wheel are supported by a pivot shaft, and an electronic control suspension that is provided between the pivot shaft and the arm sections, that has a portion overlapping with the swing arm in side view of the vehicle and that includes a control valve section at an upper portion thereof. In the saddle riding vehicle, the control valve section is disposed on one lateral side in regard of the vehicle width direction of the upper portion of the suspension, and extends toward a vehicle width-directionally outer side from a side surface of the upper portion.

A shock absorbing system for a bicycle front fork includes an outer tube and an inner tube which includes a piston located therein, and the lower end of the inner tube is movably inserted into the outer tube. A piston tube is connected between the lower end of the outer tube and the piston. The inner tube includes a first chamber and a second chamber formed therein with the piston located between the first and second chambers. A path formed between the piston and the piston tube. A manual valve is located in the piston tube and includes a rod and a movable part. The rod includes an extension section protruding beyond the outer tube. When the extension section is pushed, the rod moves upward to switch the path from a sealed status to an opened status, and the first chamber communicates with the second chamber.

A magneto rheological damper includes a housing extending between a first opened end and a second opened end and defining a fluid chamber extending therebetween. An end cap is located at the first opened end and coupled to the housing. A piston is disposed in the fluid chamber dividing the fluid chamber into a compression chamber and a rebound chamber. A piston rod extends along the center axis and attaches to the piston for movement with the piston between a compression and a rebound stroke. A magnetic field generator is located in the compression chamber and in an abutment relationship with the end cap. An extension portion protrudes radially outwardly from the housing and defining a compensation chamber and a channel. The channel is in fluid communication with the compression chamber and the compensation chamber for allowing the working fluid to flow from the compression chamber to the compensation chamber.

An air spring assembly is disclosed. The air spring assembly includes an upper fork tube having a base lug on one end, a lower fork tube having an opening to receive the upper fork tube in a first axial end, and a fork tube gas seal to form a gas seal between the upper fork tube and the lower fork tube. A partial cartridge tube within a portion of the upper fork tube, the partial cartridge tube including a partial cartridge tube gas seal between an outer diameter (OD) of the partial cartridge tube and an inner diameter (ID) of the upper fork tube. An annular volume formed between the ID of the upper fork tube, the OD of the partial cartridge tube, the partial cartridge tube gas seal, and the base lug of the upper fork tube.

A rear wheel suspension system for a bike includes a seat tube, a bottom bracket shell, left and right side flexible chainstays and a right side flexible chainstay, left and right side seatstays, and a set of dropouts located where the flexible chainstays and the seatstays interconnect for rotably supporting the rear wheel of the bicycle. The leaf spring is connected to the upper end area of the seatstays, and extends downwardly from its point of connection to the upper end area of the seatstays to a point of connection to the seat tube of the bicycle. The leaf spring is arranged at a distance D to the seat tube in a direction perpendicular to the top and bottom surfaces of the leaf spring to allow flex of the leaf spring towards the seat tube and thus vertical flex of the flexible chainstays.

A mechanism and method for externally adjusting the mid-valve stiffness is described and enables adjustment of a mid-valve functionality without disassembly of a suspension system incorporating the invention. The effect of this adjustment on the damping curve is far greater than either low-speed compression adjusters or conventional high-speed compression adjusters. The apparatus combines the valve-stiffening system of a high speed compression adjuster with the sensitivity of the mid-valve. Externally accessible adjustment members are operatively coupled to the mid-valve components located internally in a fork so that manipulation of the adjustment members causes adjustment of the mid-valve and the damping force created by the mid-valve. The apparatus may be utilized in closed cartridge suspension forks (CCSF) and open cartridge suspension forks (OCSF) and other shocks or suspension dampers.

A shock absorber includes a hard-side damping element for applying resistance to a flow of liquid from a compression side chamber to an extension side chamber, a solenoid valve capable of changing an opening area of a compression side bypass passage for communicating the compression side chamber and the extension side chamber by bypassing the hard-side damping element, and a soft-side damping element provided in the compression side bypass passage in series with the solenoid valve. The hard-side damping element has an orifice and a leaf valve provided in parallel with the orifice. The soft-side damping element has an orifice having an opening area larger than that of the orifice.

In a vehicle suspension, a preload is adjusted by selective engagement of cam surfaces of different heights with a cam receiving part by rotation of an adjuster part, the adjuster part includes a vertical wall part erected in an axial direction of a spring from a spring receiving part and an engaging part with which a tool to rotate the adjuster part is to be engaged, and the engaging part includes a first engaging part formed by a gap between the plurality of vertical wall parts disposed separately from each other in a circumferential direction of the adjuster part and a second engaging part formed by a hole penetrating the vertical wall part.

A multi-mode air shock is disclosed herein. The air shock includes an air spring having a primary air chamber, and a damper having an insertion end to telescope within the primary air chamber and a coupler to couple with a portion of a vehicle. An adjuster housing is fixedly coupled to an end of the air spring opposite of the damper, the adjuster housing having a secondary air chamber in communication with the primary air chamber and a mounting structure to couple with a different portion of the vehicle. There is a bulkhead with a valve to open or close the fluid communication between the primary air chamber and the secondary air chamber. The air shock also includes a tertiary air chamber in fluid communication with the secondary air chamber but not in fluid communication with the primary air chamber except via the secondary air chamber.