Who needs a Dropper Post?

[Dirty Sanchez]

KS Lev

+1

[rouxtjie]

Safe to assume you haven't ridden with one then, roux?

Nope....they don't tick the right boxes for me. They are expensive, requires maintenance and makes your bike heavy.

[kosmonooit]

So which one you guys recommend?

 

I'm very impressed with the Rockshox Reverb

[hayleyearth]

what was the preferred set up before dropper posts?

 

stop and adjust your seat height? or compromise and ride it in between optimal and low?

 

or different bikes....

I know a few peeps like that.

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

 

Nope....they don't tick the right boxes for me. They are expensive, requires maintenance and makes your bike heavy.

 

Oh yes. And you ride jeep track. ;P

[niterider]

Nope....they don't tick the right boxes for me. They are expensive, requires maintenance and makes your bike heavy.

 

So just like suspension, or gears?

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

On an xc bike that's only going to see jeep track, it will be nothing more than a "me too" item and see hardly any use. The more aggressive / technical your riding is, the more you'll realize that they should be standard equipment.

 

I didn't feel that way until I ride a bike with one though. And it's not just drop on the way down and then that's it. It's drop even it gets technical, raise again for a pedal section, drop for tech and so on.

 

It really is a ride changer.

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

 

 

So just like suspension, or gears?

 

2 things he doesn't have.

[rouxtjie]

Oh yes. And you ride jeep track. ;P

True...confessions of a dirtroadie...when you up in GP sometime let me know and I will show our jeep tracks. Fun gaalens, Thaba, fountains, Rietvlei...dirtroadie heaven

[rouxtjie]

2 things he doesn't have.

I gots gears...20 of them to be precise

[rouxtjie]

So just like suspension, or gears?

Exactly but that is a different debate.

[deviate]

dropper posts are definitely the domain of trail and AM riders , jeep track should be to get you to an awesome trail, not the actual event.....

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

I gots gears...20 of them to be precise

 

Thought you had an SS rigid boytjie...

 

But really rouxtjie, they're worth their miniscule extra weight. Seriously.

 

And the newer ones aren't NEARLY as much of a maintenance problem as the Crap Brothers ones were. Or the early incarnations of the reverb.

[rouxtjie]

Thought you had an SS rigid boytjie...

 

But really rouxtjie, they're worth their miniscule extra weight. Seriously.

 

And the newer ones aren't NEARLY as much of a maintenance problem as the Crap Brothers ones were. Or the early incarnations of the reverb.

hehehe i have one of those donkeys too

 

agree on the CB comment, dropper post in general got a bad rep because of them. Believe the newer ones are much better. To be honest I wouldn't know what to do with it...whenever things tech I get out of the saddle and it has never bothered me ito positioning my body. But then again, I am used to it.

[Mojoman]

I would love one but at R3200 odd Rand its a bit out of my budget!

 

https://www.buycycle.co.za/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=1064

[NicoBoshoff]

I've been riding the Command Post on my stumpy for a month now and I will never ride without a dropper post again. Sharps berms, drop-offs, little tabletop jumps all now just feel obvious to me. I can do way more with my body than before knowing that my saddle isn't going to pick me up and slam dunk me into a rock.