Just picked up the new edition from the Race Tech booth. This is the one that has been edited by William Kimberley, the editor of Race Tech magazine. It has been announced for about a year now, and when I saw it last week I bought a copy. Book is written by the founder of JRZ Suspension Engineering, Jan Zuijdijk. He was previously the chief engineer (1972) of the Koni US importer, and before that worked for Koni in Europe (1960). So he has been around a while working on dampers.

First edition was cryptic to put it mildly, but this new edition is infinitely more readable. Read Chapter 15 on Compression Damping, and one can actually understand what the author is trying to say.

 

Claude - when you finish the re-read you gotta say if you learned anything truly new that you hadn't sifted from the first edition. If it's just a prettier telling of "moar compression" then I'm unlikely to re-buy it.

Scott, whose shocks are all like "compression?...I think I remember something...something...I'm pretty sure I've been fully extended for more than 4 hours...that's not supposed to be good"...