It might have taken a few years to get from prototype to production, but that’s Max Townshend for you. He’s first and foremost an ideas guy, and sometimes those ideas run ahead of his production skills. He has been exploring the benefits of and various techniques that decouple components from external vibrations for many years. This began with air-suspension systems based on inner tubes. Although these proved effective enough, it was necessary to keep a bicycle pump handy and add some air every six months or so (as one would for the tyres of any bicycle), and this did seem to be a problem for some customers. The solution was to replace the air suspension with a spring arrangement based on a Seismic Load Cell, in which a spring is located within cup-shaped end caps and encased in intentionally leaky ‘bellows’ that provide very effective damping for the springs. Read more:
