Originally Posted by
rankin116
Thinking about this from a (very limited, I must admit) physics angle, the velocity forward has no relation to the velocity down. Gravity is gravity, regadless of how fast you are travelling forward.
That would be the case if the rider landed instantaneously...but the load is actually distributed over an area delineated in time from when the tires first touch until the rider finishes absorbing the impact. The faster the rider is going, the greater the area the load is spread over resulting in a lower peak load.
Definitely.