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It's as contemporary as it is traditional, equally at home in a minimalist apartment or an unsprung country house.

Fresh Picks 2011

After the unsprung cages have been baited for a week so the badgers become familiar with them, the traps are set, a laborious, low-tech process involving peanuts, a rock, wire and good old string.

Do we have to shoot the badgers? 2011

At moderate speeds in moderate corners, the CC rolls like a capsizing ore ship, and yet the tighter suspension can't seem to rein in the 20-inch wheels' unsprung mass, which on rough roads will trammel and judder frantically.

A Nissan at CrossPurposes With Competence Dan Neil 2011

The chassis-tuning details are pretty arcane, but they include firmer springs in front and much firmer springs in back; as well as stiffer control arm and subframe bushings; thicker antiroll bars front and rear; lighter wheels and tires (less unsprung mass) and a general, sympathetic harmonizing between suspension, wheel-and-tire package and powertrain.

Fanboys in Flight: Subaru Roars In on a Wing Dan Neil 2010

Reply zippyflounder says ding ding ding … you hit the nail on the head re the unsprung weight both for the wheel design and the in hub motors … well done kid.

You don’t climb into a MMR25 to be a driver… » Yanko Design 2008

All wheel control arms and several other suspension components are made from aluminum, and these, with several other aluminum components, greatly reduce unsprung masses to enhance efficiency.

The CEO's Suite Bertrand D'souza 2010

All wheel control arms and several other suspension components are made from aluminum, and these, with several other aluminum components, greatly reduce unsprung masses to enhance efficiency.

The CEO's Suite Bertrand D'souza 2010

The big problem, as I understand it, is the unsprung mass of the wheel.

Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » The electrification of motoring 2009

 Out of the suit, unsprung on a king-sized hotel bed, his skin paler than she had at first thought, she was still transfixed: the stubble along his jaw, the small hard muscles in his calves, his forearms, an odd curling leaf tattooed high on one shoulder.

Everything is Fine 2008

Marriages have been sundered, careers wrecked, confidences shattered, boners unsprung.

Pieces of Lou, pt. 2 2008