We were going up this, but if riding down it, you would certainly appreciate not towering over your handlebars!Thay make you a lazy rider, and you don't develop the fine control and weight shifting skills, which can also benefit you on the road where you wont habe a dropper to assist.
Depending on your physiology they may provide little benefit anyway. I am long of leg and have never had the slightest diffuclty with the seat impeding me shifting around.
That doesn't make a lot of sense, how does moving the seat out of the way so that you can shift your weight around make you lazy?Pitfalls -
Thay make you a lazy rider, and you don't develop the fine control and weight shifting skills, which can also benefit you on the road where you wont habe a dropper to assist.
Depending on your physiology they may provide little benefit anyway. I am long of leg and have never had the slightest diffuclty with the seat impeding me shifting around.
Pitfalls -
Thay make you a lazy rider, and you don't develop the fine control and weight shifting skills, which can also benefit you on the road where you wont habe a dropper to assist.
Depending on your physiology they may provide little benefit anyway. I am long of leg and have never had the slightest diffuclty with the seat impeding me shifting around.
Extra weight for dubious gain.
Pros -
If yoy just want to ride, and don't give a sheet about actually developing your skills and technique, they can be handy.
Other less skilled MTB'ers will nod approvingly.
Until I retired from it through ill health this year I was a - non sporting - MTB skills instructor to EMS clients, and very few other instructors used droppers either.