Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Can anyone tell me about dropper seat posts?
Mounting and dismounting my trekking ebike is getting increasingly difficult.
An experiment doing so with the saddle lowered tells me having a dropper will make things much easier.
The aim being to stave off the purchase of a step through bike for as long as I can.
The current post is a Thudbuster with a shim, not sure of the size but it will be thickish - 30. whatever mm.
A brief look online shows lots of Rockshox and a few Fox posts with a choice of internal and external routing - not sure exactly what the difference is.
It will be a pity to lose the boing in the Thudbuster, so I wonder if there's a suspension dropper.
No firm budget, but it looks like I will need to spend £250 or £300 - don't really want to go much more.
Any tips/recommendations appreciated.
Mounting and dismounting my trekking ebike is getting increasingly difficult.
An experiment doing so with the saddle lowered tells me having a dropper will make things much easier.
The aim being to stave off the purchase of a step through bike for as long as I can.
The current post is a Thudbuster with a shim, not sure of the size but it will be thickish - 30. whatever mm.
A brief look online shows lots of Rockshox and a few Fox posts with a choice of internal and external routing - not sure exactly what the difference is.
It will be a pity to lose the boing in the Thudbuster, so I wonder if there's a suspension dropper.
No firm budget, but it looks like I will need to spend £250 or £300 - don't really want to go much more.
Any tips/recommendations appreciated.