Author Description

Most suspension books tell you either generally or in an over-complicated way, how a motorcycle chassis reacts and what dampers do. This one tells you what to do with it overall, and specifically on six different flat track surfaces. With the specificity that actually matters, when the track changes, your setup has to move with it. Flat Track Tuning breaks down suspension strategy by surface condition: Blue Groove, Dry Slick, Tacky Clay, Slick Clay, Cushion, and Banked, plus the general principles that tie them all together. Each chapter covers spring rate philosophy, damping targets across the low-, mid-, and high-speed bands, valving architecture, chassis attitude, geometry, and a symptom-to-cause diagnostic framework built for the pits, not the classroom. DTX, framer, and modern twin platforms are addressed throughout. This knowledge has never been on paper because it lives in shops, not libraries. Passed between builders at the bench, now it’s published for the public. The knowledge that separates a fast bike from a dangerous guess, has lived inside the minds of a handful of builders and tuners who earned it the hard way. Until now, you either knew someone or you figured it out on your own by burning laps, burning money, and burning through tires chasing setups that were never going to work. That era is over. The framework is on paper. Written by a working suspension builder, not a journalist, not a theorist, and not someone who learned suspension from a textbook. Every chapter was built from the bench, validated at the track, and written for the people doing the work.