can someone please explain...

clarkson

G-outs? what the hell is this? it sounds such a stupid word/phrase thing and mbuk and bikeradar keep mentioning it, but I have no idea what it means!! could someone please enlighten me?!

thebikechain

Ignore it.

I don't think anyone really knows... :P

badly_dubbed

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=G+out

clarkson

haha nice badly_dubbed. I agree, i think its a word no-one knows the meaning of!

bike-a-swan

i always took it to mean what happens when you go from downhill to flat too quickly and get 'pushed down' into the saddle. like pulling up sharply in an aircraft.

hucking_fell

I took it to mean when cornering in a berm and all the suspension is compressed due to the g-force.

The Northern Monkey

Hucking Fell wrote:

I took it to mean when cornering in a berm and all the suspension is compressed due to the g-force.

+1

You effectively use al your travel round a berm.

stumpyjon

As above, I always consider the last big drop and climb on Hullg Gulley as a G out, rear suspension fully compressed and it still feels like you're being squashed into the bike.

delcol

+1 stumpy jon....

best g out i ever felt is on whitesnake in whistler bike park.
supsension fully compressed bike trying to spit you out off the back. i'l try find the vid..

right at the end of this vid, i hit whitsnake watch the g out at the bottom it's killer....

http://www.youtube.com/user/topasassin# ... ebeQPB1As8

Torres

From how i see it, it's just centripetal force.

The force is always directed away from the centre of the circle (or in this case towards the berm.) It works best if you think of the berm as just a part of a full circle, so as you move through it there's a force pushing you in to it.

Force = (mass x speed squared) / Radius. So the heavyer you are, faster you go, or tighter the berm is, the more force you feel (and the more force you exert on your suss) hence blowing through more travel.

As you leave the berm this force reuces and the suspension will extend accordingly.