Zoom Suspension Seat Post - Black, 31.6x350 mm

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Dropper posts are most often found on mountain bikes and allow you to adjust your saddle height on the fly via a remote activation lever on your handlebars. This is especially helpful when descending technical terrain, where lowering your saddle puts you in a more balanced and controlled riding position. One (precise) measurement is often better than a thousand expert opinions”– author’s expert opinion. 🙂 There are different lengths on offer, too. Seatposts will have a marker which shows the minimum amount of post that can be inside the seat tube. If you ride a small frame with a lot of seatpost showing, you'll need to make sure you buy a post that allows for this. The post comes with a shifter-style under-bar remote and internal cable routing, unlike the regular Ascend (also included in this guide), which has external routing. To figure out how long a drop you can use, measure your existing seatpost from the saddle rail to the top of seat collar, then compare this to the length of the dropper post from the saddle rail to below the post’s collar.

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The introduction of carbon to bike manufacturing was a game changer for seatposts. Not only can it help to reduce the overall weight of the bike, but the way in which carbon components are manufactured – by building up layers of fibres –can be adjusted to give it the perfect blend of compliance and stiffness. From damping to deflection, the best carbon seatposts can help soften vibrations and take the edge off impacts. SRAM’s Matchmaker and Shimano’s I-Spec standards allow you to combine a dropper and brake lever on one mount to keep the handlebar tidy. If you don’t want to spend too much cash on a seat post, there are plenty of great aluminium options out

The new Fox Transfer Performance Elite is lighter than before and is now available with 200mm of travel. Andy Lloyd / Immediate Media An older standard popular on road bikes, 31.6mm seatposts have mostly been superseded by 27.2mm-diameter posts. They’re still found on some road bikes and many mountain bikes though. For a dropper post to work, there needs to be sufficient space in the frame’s seat tube. This is particularly an issue with smaller frame sizes, which often have shorter-travel dropper posts as a result.

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especially if you splash out on a carbon model. Compared to mountain bike seatposts, a road bike seatpost If the number is the same or less, you’re in business. If the dropper post’s length is longer, you’ll have to use another option. Fixed or infinite travel adjustment? might look simple, but there’s a lot to consider when purchasing a new one. The best road bike seatpost for

It is easiest to measure the existing seatpost outer diameter – if there is a well-fitting seatpost on the bike. In case there’s no seatpost, we would need to measure the seat-tube’s inner diameter (using calipers, and minding to measure the tube itself, not the seat-clamp’s inner diameter).Dropper posts enable you to move the saddle out of the way on technical terrain. Ian Linton / YT Industries