# SAL - Suspension Setup Buddy — Suspension setup logbook

> Suspension setup logbook (iPhone/iPad app by EMP SIA.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sal-suspension-setup-buddy/id6806550107 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [EMP SIA](https://appshunter.io/developer/1819252084)
- Category: Sports, Productivity
- Price: $12.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 4 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-08
- Data updated: 2026-09-28
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sal-suspension-setup-buddy/id6806550107/reviews.md

## What is SAL?

SAL is a suspension logbook for people who ride motorcycles for fun or professionally.

Most riders keep this in their head or in a notes app, or on the back of a tyre invoice. Six months later the paper is gone and the guessing starts again. SAL keeps it, and — more useful — reads it back to you in an order that means something.

BUILT FOR THE PADDOCK, NOT THE CLOUD:
No account. No sign-up. No network connection of any kind. SAL does not collect, transmit or sell anything, because it has no way to — everything lives on your phone and goes nowhere else. It works in a field with no signal, which is where you might need it the most. 

MEASURE YOUR SAG PROPERLY:
Three readings between the same two points every time: fully extended, the bike on its own, then with you aboard in full kit.
The third reading is the one that matters. The gap between bike-only and with-rider comes purely from your weight, and no amount of preload can change it — so it is the one honest test of whether your spring is right. SAL spells out the sums, the target window for your discipline, and tells you plainly whether the answer is a preload adjustment or a different spring.


LOG THE BIKE AS IT SITS:
Compression, rebound and preload at both ends, counted the way the paddock counts them: clicks out from fully closed. Each adjuster is a dial showing how far out you are of the maximum for your bike, so "6" stops being a number and starts being a position.
Add the tyre, the pressures cold and hot and coming off track, how it felt, and a note for next time. Between sessions, Quick Edit opens straight onto the adjusters and leaves everything else alone.


READ IT BACK:
Sessions are grouped by circuit and compared like with like — a dry session is only ever read against the previous dry session at that track. The first session at a track shows its settings in full; every one after it shows what changed instead.
Last setup used by track puts every weather you have ridden a circuit in side by side, dry against wet, in one table.


WHEN SOMETHING FEELS WRONG:
Describe what the bike is doing — front dives, rear kicks, won't turn — rather than what you think is broken. Thirty-five symptoms, filtered to your discipline.
Every one opens with what to confirm before you touch anything, because half of what gets blamed on damping is sag, a pressure, a worn tyre or a dry bearing wearing a disguise. Then the fixes in the order worth trying, with why each works and what you give up by overdoing it.
What each adjustment does is the other way in: what a control governs, what changes when you move it either way, and what it will not do however far you turn it.

ALSO IN THE APP:
• Spring rate calculator, worked from your own sag or from your weight
• A tyre library with cold and hot pressure windows per end, importable and exportable as a spreadsheet
• A service log for any work at all — suspension, engine, brakes, electrics — with what the bike had run and what it cost
• A printable one-page setup sheet to hand a tuner, and a file another SAL rider can import
• Metric or imperial, bar or psi, and a minimalist view that strips the whole thing back to track, date, feel and the three adjusters

FOR ROAD, TRACK AND DIRT

Pick a discipline per bike — track and road race, motocross and enduro, or street and sport-touring — and SAL follows it: the sag windows, the spring maths, the symptoms you are shown, and the words it uses. MX riders get race sag and free sag; road riders get rider sag and static sag. Off-road bikes count service in hours, road bikes in distance.

Change one thing at a time, write it down, and stop guessing.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-09-08

No release notes.

## More apps by EMP SIA

- [Pickachore](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pickachore/id6803115599)

All apps by EMP SIA: https://appshunter.io/developer/1819252084

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