Who We Are

I’ve been on a bike for as long as I can remember. Riding was always the fun part, but I spent just as much time taking bikes apart, mostly because I wanted to understand how everything worked. Suspension became the obsession pretty quickly for me: not just how it feels, but why it feels that way.

That curiosity is the core of SWAVE: solve real suspension problems with tools that make sense for real riders.

Before engineering school, I worked as a marine engineer on cargo ships and cruise ships. On ships, as an officer in the engine room, you deal with complex mechanical systems that you have to understand inside and out. You take them apart, diagnose issues, work with real parameters and tolerances, and fix them yourself often with no backup and no help. Precision matters, procedures matter, and the right tool matters. That mindset carried straight over to bikes and suspension: understand the system first.

Today, I’m in my third year of Physics Engineering at Université Laval in Québec City. Physics and math give me the tools to build things in my head first, modeling forces, stresses, and behavior, writing code to test ideas, and pushing designs before they ever become real parts. When that theoretical work meets hands-on mechanics, that’s where the interesting stuff happens.

MTB suspension service shouldn’t feel like a scavenger hunt. But for DIY riders it often does: manuals use cryptic codes, required tools are hard to identify, and the few places that sell them can have expensive shipping, unreliable stock, and incomplete tool coverage.

The result is predictable: riders delay maintenance, do partial service, or give up and replace parts early.