Tbf to BMW they were first to market with the sportsbike electronic suspension on the road going HP4, the others have followed so you are comparing tech that was first introduced in 2012/13 to stuff put on to bikes 2016/17. Tech moves very quickly. I expect BMW will have significantly upgraded the ddc for 2019 but we shall see....
Very true, furthermore the BMW DDC system is a true semi-active system, unlike the ?event-based? system from Ohlins.
With DDC the suspension action is monitored and adjusted via a solenoid something like 120 times per second. The damping is adjusted based on throttle input, braking, lean angle etc.
The event based stuff from Ohlins essentially has fixed settings that are implemented based on what section of riding you?re at, i.e. heavy braking after a straight, then corner, then accelerating again. To my knowledge the 2.0 system from Ohlins is essentially a new GUI for suspension adjustment, based on rider feel/experience rather than the traditional compression and rebound adjustments, and a greater number of ?events? such as corner entry, mid corner, corner exit etc.
In my mind the next generation of DDC has come from Kawasaki, with their ZX10R-SE. They are using a Showa BFF setup, which is truly semi-active as in the case with BMW.
The advantages of their system though is that the forks have an internal potentiometer and that the system can make changes something like 1000 times per second.
I strongly suspect this is the sort of upgrade/direction that BMW will have for the 2019 bike, and not the Ohlins setup as per Yamaha, Honda and Ducati.
I wonder if BMW will have electronic preload adjustment for the shock on the next gen RR?
