Mechanical Spring Dropper Post

Basically it was a spring that attached to the seat post collar on one end and to the post itself at the other.

Mechanical spring dropper post.

The remote or lever itself will be connected to the dropper post either via a mechanical cable or via a hydraulic hose. While most dropper seatposts depend on an air spring to move the post into the up position several brands have engineered various different systems for controlling the post s travel. Hydraulic only reverb vs mechanical actuation or hydraulic most vs mechanical command post doss joplin holding mechanism. Another exception is the fully mechanical e13 trs which uses a coil spring and a.

The hite rite seat locating spring. It is a 4. Thus it is an indexed dropper with 4 distinct seatpost height positions. Cable routing is all internal so the frames need to be designed with internal routing.

Travel dropper seat posts are now available in a wide range of drops from 100 mm right through to a whopping 258 mm. Seat retention is performed by the reliable and easily adjustable two bolt design. Catchy name i know. Remember that the difference is either.

If you re going to be diligent about maintenance then the reverb s remote gets bled with the rest of the post so it should be solid all the time. Just removed a rockshox reverb stealth from my fat bike and replaced it with the giant contact mechanical dropper post. This product has literally transformed the way we ride for the better but it can be a challenge to find the right one. Shims can be used to increase the seat post diameter of a dropper post to fit into a larger diameter frame size but you cannot fit a larger dropper post into a narrower diameter frame.

Mechanical cable actuation mechanical spring and a key to hold and release the post. A dropper post allows you to raise and lower your seat to ensure that it is always in the right spot for every rise and fall in the trail. Some are fully hydraulic some are purely mechanical and others rely on a fully sealed hydraulic cartridge that s actuated by a cable. Way back in the early 1980s joe breeze one of our sport s godfathers developed what is arguably the precursor to the modern dropper post.