bruceski88
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I definitely feel some bouncing when the road surface is a bit wavy, but it's not anything too bad for us. Depends a lot on the road though.
My bigger disappointment is the roughness
of the ride at times than the bouncing, although lowering PSI did help that some.
Every mid to high end mountain bike comes with adjustable shocks. This is because the rider is 4 to 10 times the weight of the bike and it is impossible to make the suspension work on the knarly terrain each rider has to navigate. Usually there are both adjustable compression and rebound damping plus spring rate to customize for rider and terrain. So it is certainly possible to fixAnd that would be incorrect. A heavier car should not be bouncier than a lighter car. Suspensions are designed to take into account the weight of the car. Heavier cars have suspensions to ride smoothly with the higher weight.
An empty pickup can be bouncy but it's not because it's heavy - it's bouncy when unladen because it weighs far less than it's maximum weight. There is a large difference between the unladen weight and laden weight of a pickup so the unladen ride can be rough. But an EV doesn't have that problem because it always has the battery pack and a charged pack weighs the same as a depleted pack (unlike a gas car).
The battery weight of an EV causes the laden weight and the unladen weight to differ by a smaller percentage so it's even easier to design the suspension to be as comfortable unladen as it is at it's full GVWR. Of course larger dampers are used to achieve this but there is less compromise required due to the smaller percentage difference in weight from just a driver (unladen) to maximum capacity.
If anything, the higher weight of an EV should give it a smoother ride.
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