Dropper posts are they worth it.

[The History Man]

This is my point. I want to ride decent descent in confidence on unknown bits.

 

[brocklanders023]

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Honestly mate, they're well worth it and there's not one single negative when it comes to descents.

 

[The History Man]

Apart from the descent in my bank balance

I almost left my plumbs in princess Anne's backyard this year.

 

[DrJo]

she's got enough plums of her own

 

[T'boo Ted]

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Honestly mate, they're well worth it and there's not one single negative when it comes to descents.

To be honest I don't like the way it feels when it's down. Back in the day of DH on your cross country bike, yeah we'd put the seat down, but I'd only go down a bit like an inch or so, and more and it would feel wrong. Same still, If it would only go down a bit, it'd be great, but trying to get it into a spot that isn't too low or not low enough, it just feel wonky and distracting.

For most of my riding (the trails I do all the time) don't need one, it doesn't seem to make me any faster (or slower) its just a distraction. But for trails that are at or above my comfort zone, then yeah totally useful

 

[Twisty]

The benefit of a dropped saddle is 2-fold
1) It allows you to let the bike move around a lot more over rough downhills, do it right and you can carry quite a bit more speed.
2) On really steep descents it makes getting weight back far less problematic. Dropping over the back of a full height saddle so ones chest is over it is difficult and can cause some scary situations.

I used to manually drop my saddle for some long rough descents and did wonder why nobody made an automatically dropping post. As soon as I found out about the gravity dropper I got one and didn't regret it

 

[T'boo Ted]

I think we all now the benefits as they are quite obvious. I just find personally having it low(while giving those benefits) feels very weird to the point of disconcerting. Not saying it doesn't help, just saying how it feels to me.

 

[Matthews]

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Tried a cheap o Raleigh rep one over a year ago and whilst it's not as solid as the elite I'm still using it , thinking about another for the Kona , both 27.2, had to do a bit of fettling (thick oil instead of grease and Spring tension tightened ) but it's still going strong after 1/1/2 years abuse , cable it comes with is too short but no big issue and it cost me about £80 new

 

[elPedro666]

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I think those Raleigh ones are still available for under fifty quid, branded variously... T-Mars is the name that sticks in my head.

 

[Matthews]

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T mars are different Ped , sorrento or something is the co that makes em , wen't for the RSP from evans so I could take it back if it collapsed second time out but it's still going strong .