rear suspension linkage spreadsheet
 

I made one, it'll calculate the effective spring force vs suspenion travel and effective spring rate vs travel (and could be modified to calculate other stuff as well). I think it works properly...

Anyway, here it is in case anyone finds it useful. Feel free to copy it or modify it or what ever. It was originally made in OpenOffice. There's an Excel version too, but some of the graph display stuff (like labels and one of the lines) doesn't display quite right, but should be fixable (or work-around-able). And there's a .pdf going over the calculations.

http://cid-b37a983fa606d24a.skydrive...se.aspx/Public

Re: rear suspension linkage spreadsheet
 

I have seen this somewhere :)
does anybody know how much can shock bumper compress?