About Downamics

Downamics was born from a quest to become faster and more a competitive racer. I'm Nick and I race downhill and I started to look in to data acquisition as a way to try and help me become a faster rider. My passion for data started with an F1 obession and the way data was used to monitor key pieces of equipment at the paper mill I was working at.

 

Keeping a finger on the data acquisition pulse since around 2016, I was fascinated with the work Dave Garland was putting in to his Stendec syste, and after listening to a Vital MTB podcast with Dave (many, many times) I knew I wanted to be a part of this. That podcast lead me to spend countless hours on the phone to Dave over the lockdown period in 2020, where he taught me the ins and outs of data acquisition, the Stendec system, suspension and bike set up. This was to become a crucial part of my career as well as some treasured memories of Dave before his untimely passing in November 2020. 

Data acquisition is a relatively new technology in mountain biking but it is already being utilised by some of the worlds fastest racers and teams to try and find those precious milliseconds that separate the top steps in today’s racing.

This technology is not just for the world’s fastest, however. It can help everyone from the keen enthusiast who just wants to understand their bike and their riding better, a world cup racer seeking every gain possible to get faster and anyone in between. It's also proven to be an essential tool for product testing and development, more on this later.

Downamics can help you see how your bike can perform better, how you can tidy up your riding and how you and your bike can work together to be more balanced and ultimately faster and more confident. We use a variety of different systems, from the Stendec system that Downamics started with, to Motion Instruments, BYB and even helping to improve and develop the impressive system from Syn.Bike.

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Downamics has also used data acquisition to help brands with product development and testing. This has been implemented during my time at Commencal, with various race teams at World Cup level through to independent testing to better understand how new products work.  We have helped brands like E-Thirteen and CounterShock with development and validation of new products, to independent testing on chassis stability and compliance. 

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This same technology, data, feedback and insights can be applied to your bike and your riding too. We will be able to give you a complete overview of how your entire bike behaves, not just your suspension. No stone is left unturned in our endeavor to make you faster and more competitive.