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A similar development process took place in the cross-country racing arena. This time it was Gerard Karpik and his brothers who started an intensive testing program to make better long travel suspensions in order to handle the rough mogul tracks. Through constant testing and redesign of components, several key design features were developed by Gerard’s group that today make your sled ride smoothly over rough trails that otherwise would throw and buck you off. All the work by the Karpik brothers was intuition mixed with lots of testing and step by step innovations to make everything work together. There were no books or computer programs to tell them what to do. This was pioneer work.