Hi there this is the all new Jekyll and this is the all new Jekyll's one of a kind suspension
system. It's a different kind of beast. It looks different it acts different, and man does it go
like hell. Today we're going to break it down and focus on the five elements that all work together
in a kind of beautiful kumbaya harmony to deliver Jekyll's unbeatable suspension performance.
There's the gravity cavity, the high pivot, the Guidler, the four bar linkage and then the special
sauce that ties it all together our proportional response size specific design. So let's talk
gravity cavity, you got it this bike has a bit of a sweet tooth for the gnar and it keeps all
that sugar right here. The gravity cavity lets us put the shock inside the down tube for the lowest
possible center of gravity. A lower center of gravity is good because it means the bike handles
better it's easier to throw it side to side it's more planted when you're driving through turns
and it's much more stable at speed. Next up the high pivot. On the Jekyll the swing arm pivots
up here high on the seat tube with the pivot up high like this the wheel moves backwards and
up when it encounters a bump letting your momentum carry smoothly on instead of hanging up as your
wheel tries to go up and over the obstacle. It just makes it easier to go faster. But high
pivots also come with a nasty side effect - pedal kickback. When the rear wheel follows that lovely
rearward arc it causes the chain to pull the crank backwards like this. Ouch! That is pedal kickback.
Not fun and not fast so we added the Guidler that's part chain guide part idler pulley
and putting this little contraption right here eliminates chain growth
and that kills all that pesky pedal kickback and keeps the suspension movement and your
pedal stroke as smooth as a 70s slow jam. So with this high pivot and Guidler setup we get a great
rearward wheel path, amazing bump absorption and unreal smoothness but that is not nearly enough
which brings us to the four bar linkage the four bar or Horst link system gives our engineers the
ability to control two important variables called rise and squat. Squat is the tendency of the rear
suspension to compress under acceleration like when you mash the gas in that sweet rental mustang
the tail drops front comes up that's squat then when you nail the brakes and the front
compresses the rear rises up well that's rise. The four bar system lets us design
in forces that counteract these effects which are called obviously enough anti-rise and anti-squat.
This means when you're pedaling the suspension doesn't squat too much and when you're braking it
doesn't rise too much it stays right in that sweet spot giving you maximum traction maximum bump
absorption for maximum speed. So we could have pretty much stopped right there and had a kick-ass
suspension design but we didn't we went a giant step further and customized it just for you. Well
I mean not for you specifically but for somebody who shares your approximate center of gravity.
You see how any suspension system behaves is heavily affected by the rider's center of gravity.
It influences how the suspension responds to everything. Bumps, braking acceleration,
you name it. Taller riders obviously have a different center of gravity than shorter riders
yet the other guys design around one center of gravity then use that exact same suspension layout
for every size bike they make so that in any given situation at least 75 percent of the riders will
be experiencing sub-optimal suspension performance and i mean come on that's not right. With our
proportional response size specific design we tailor every aspect of the bike around that size
rider's average center of gravity. Everything. Geometry, chain stay length, rider position, and
most importantly the suspension kinematic. Each size gets its own customized suspension layout.
Different pivot locations, leverage ratios, the works. The suspension is literally tailored for
that size. So when you hop on a Jekyll and it feels like it was hand built just for you, it was.
So that was the all-new Jekyll and its sweet new suspension system
thanks for hanging out with us now it's time to ride. See you at the bottom