Quote Originally Posted by Ozzy27 View Post
I think you are talking about torque squat or anti squat that most modern sport bikes have.
When you look at a data trace of rear suspension the suspension hardly squats at all on throttle application and by the time the throttle is fully open the rear suspension is almost fully topped out making full use of the top out spring softening the wheel rate giving better traction.
There is a lot written about torque antisquat and how to tune it for best traction. There is a whole chapter in tony Foales book on it and 2 in Aprilla's suspension principles Book.
Ummmm, making use of the top out spring in high end race shocks that actually have them! Top out springs are almost never ever seen in oem shocks and Penske also totally lack them. ( For reasons best known to themslves but in my opinion to their disadvantage ) WP and Ohlins are companies that especially embrace them. We play with top out springs ( lengths and rates ) all the time. The toybox of options is rather too big at times.
Another reason we dont see swingarm and counter sprockets on the same centreline is it presents another engineering challenge in terms of width and rigidity.