I love my reverb. Just serviced it myself for the first time in 12 months hard use and their was quite a bit of crap inside it, but it still worked sweet. They both have a 2 year warranty so no real risks as if its gonna go wrong it will in 2 years. I would go on price and see what the actual sale price is of the Kronolog when it comes out.
How are Crank Bros still in business? Seriously? Do they sell that many multi tools? I can’t think of a single person who’s owned their products and not been burned.
Well, to be fair you learn from your mistakes so they should have learned a lot from the Joplins, they made pretty much every mistake possible with those.
You have to be certifiable to buy any new expensive dropper post before it’s been tested in the real world, let alone a CB one. Let someone else pay to be a beta tester.
I’d go for a Reverb but wish they had put the hose in the same place that CB have on the Kronolog. Personally I think that is a better solution than the stealth Reverb to me that seems like a real mistake for servicing.
There’s a few nice things about that design, but the RRP is crazy, and you don’t see fox stuff discounted the way other brands are – I paid 210 Euro for a 2012 Reverb on Monday – Fox DOSS RRP is £350 sterling.
I got a Reverb with my Canyon last July. It is a great thing to have but developed lateral play after 1st ride which got worse, with for & aft play too. It went back to SRAM twice, lastly with a new design of tube. Play came back every time, so may have to just live with it. This is 3rd gen design but it is still not quite everything we’d want.
Well, to be fair you learn from your mistakes so they should have learned a lot from the Joplins, they made pretty much every mistake possible with those.
not so sure about that, looks like they’ve shoved an oval shaft into a round seal with the Kronolog
How are Crank Bros still in business? Seriously? Do they sell that many multi tools? I can’t think of a single person who’s owned their products and not been burned.
5 sets of mallets in the house, 4 sets of candys, will have some of the new ones when I return to the world of work.
Great pedals if you look after them, new ones should be much better.
Very happy with the Reverb now I have the hose run sorted so it doesnt kink. Had a Joplin and whist it worked it was ok. Cable actuation will always be suspect for me re weather and crap getting in. The Reverb is an inline post too, joplin is a layback and to get the saddle in the correct position it was forward on the rails which damaged it. Also the actuating pin wouldnt work with some saddles…
Non of this is about the Kronolog but some about cable operated posts…
I hope I don’t regret saying this but my reverb is over a year old and as been fault free out the box, no bleed, no services. I’d be worried about buying any 1st gen kit from cb.
when on earth is somebody going to make a nice 5 inch version of a 27.2mm dropper post 🙁
shirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrley theres enough buyers out there to make it a worthwhile product for a company? somebodys gotta want to take the risk and do a good one?!?! there are literally thousands and thousands out there after a 27.2
IME my candy’s have outlasted my atac’s by a factor of 3! Still not as reliable as Shimano though, but I’d trade off some long term reliability for every day reliability of the time/CD style binding rather than the mud trap shimano’s and I prefer the floaty feeling rahter than the bolted tot he bike feeling.
Whats the cover like that clips over the mechanism? From the video I have seen it looks like it pops off very easily so wondering what the sealing would be like.
Baffling… Does buying a Kronolog instead of a Gravity Dropper mean you’re really really optimistic or just care far more about how your bike looks than how much you get to enjoy riding it?