Through the first three parts of our series on mountain bike suspension we have delved into the worlds of servicing, eMTB setup and shock tuning with some of Australia’s perennial experts in their respective fields. In this fourth and final part of the series, we catch up with Joshua Mclnerney who is a suspension technician at NS Dynamics. Josh, a mechanical engineer by training loves all things suspension and given his technical background we thought who better to quiz on the question of air versus coil. While we appreciate that you could easily fill this entire magazine from cover to cover discussing this inflamatory subject, we’d prefer to let someone like Josh who has both the theoretical knowledge and practical experience designing, servicing and riding both spring types do the talking.
“Many modern bikes give riders the option of choosing between a coil sprung or air sprung suspension system, each have
