[beau_g]

Speed bumps are much rougher in my idiot monster truck than they are on my Mercedes station wagon, idiot monster truck spring rates and damping are engineered to tow heavy loads/carry heavy payloads so especially when unloaded speed bumps are quite jarring compared to a passenger car.

[potato3732842]

Except for the fact that the in the average case the monster truck is probably being driven by someone who'll full send it (which minimizes the bump) and the Mercedes is being driven by someone who'll inevitably crawl over it at 2mph.

But yeah, swap the average drivers and the Mercedes is gonna do way better.

[nikisweeting]

Just hit them significantly faster, it'll do the same thing as going slow with a heavy load. There's a reason the faster you ride motocross the harsher you tune your spring and damping rates.

[mikrotikker]

My riding skill improved so much the day I fully grokked "lean back and twist the throttle" to handle obstacles (I did it by accident and thought I was going to die)

[serf]

what's the reason? it surely isn't ride smoothness, it's control.

similar to a race car -- you don't compensate the speed with damping and spring rates in order to maximize a smooth ride , you do it to more quickly transfer the movement energy OUT of your car, into the ground and traction patch so that the car can remain dynamic for the next force.

this does not equate to ride quality, most race cars (and bikes) are bone-shakers.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Off-road trucks have better bump handling ability as their suspensions aren't configured like load handling trucks.