A new trend?

Honestly speaking, I totally got nothing to talk about today but after accidently seeing the review of Pace latest full suspension bike, I realise a similarity about its floating shock mount design. The bike is smoother. Thats exactly the same comment as Trek's Full Floater.

BikeRadar states: Pace's patented Free Floater suspension design sandwiches the shock between ultra stiff 3D CNC'd linkages. These combine to bring the back wheel first backwards and then increasingly upwards and round through the 130mm (5in) stroke. They also manipulate leverage on the DT shock for smoother start and end phases but, thankfully, much less mid-stroke 'hammock. The Free Floater rear end is spot on too, making the DT HVR shock feel fantastically supple. It's smooth enough to stop eye blur on washed-out wooden steps, it rolls easily over square-edged hits without taking a momentum kick to the kidneys and it lands proper drops with a very calm catch.

CyclingNews states: According to Trek, the 'Full Floater' design allows for better fine-tuning of shock leverage ratios throughout the travel range, delivering a more supple feel at the top of the stroke and a more 'bottomless' feel at the other end.

As you can see, the comments is pretty much the same, especially commenting about the manipulated leverage ratio. Below are the two pics of a floating shock mount.(Left: Trek Full Floater, Right: Pace Full Floater)

So basically the advantage of this design is it allows the manufacturer to custom tune the leverage ratio of the shock throughout its travel without resorting to complicated design like DW Link