Im going to be building a new bike up soon and want to put a dropper post on, I do not want to go down the reverb route, I might be unlucky but had nothing but problems with the so finally given up on them, its just the hassle of stripping it out fitting the normal post waiting weeks to get it back etc., just had enough, I just want something that works day in and day out

if you can get a stealth one even better,
thanks

Lev if you are prepared to pay for it

Gravity Dropper

Is the lev cable??

You wont go far wrong with a Specialized Command post. We are running them on all our bikes and have had no problems. I bought a new stealth one a couple of weeks ago from ebay for £120.

I’d pay as long as it worked and didn’t keep failing

Sounds interesting Tracy

Are they like a reverb in so much you have infinite adjustment, I don’t know nothing about these

Having a dropper post where the cable attaches at a fixed point a la Reverb would be very nice, if only for the sake of saving your frame and your cables from excessive wear. I’ve got a Command Post like Tracey’s, the necessary loop of cable annoys me and offends my aesthetic sensibilities, even though I have no complaints about the post’s reliability in the short time I’ve owned it.

They are either up down or 25mm down. We find we dont need it setting at anything else. The loop doesn’t bother me. Use the specialized seat clamp that has a guide grove in it. The stealth ones do away with the loop

Thomson.

Just because it’s cable won’t make it any more (or less) reliable.

They all break. Pick the one you get the best support on. Oh, and like the look of.

Unfortunatly that would be the reverb, breaks a lot but gets fixed quite quick

What issues did you have with the hydraulics between seatpost and remote, milkyman? AFAIK the complicated internals are far more prone to failure, which could be said about most droppers out there bar Gravity Dropper which is really simple in its design.

I’ve got a lev and a doss and both have been faultless for ages .

I’m used to Reverbs & though they’re good i rode a mates new bike with a Fox Doss & was very impressed by it, two levers on it & a short black one that just drops the post by around 2 to 3cm or the bigger lever drops it all the way, felt very smooth with virtually no play in it.
Pricy but then you get what you pay for.

Cheers
Mark

KS Lev. Well over a year old now and still sweet. Cable operated – ODI grip collar integrated lever (or a bling bling upgraded lever if you don’t like it) static cable entry point (so no real need for the stealth/Integra version) and infinite adjustment.

Had a play with a Giant Contact the other day. Seemed very good to me, as a Reverb user.

MBR mag does a test of budget droppers in the current issue. Giant Contact comes out top. £169.99, 100mm drop with built-in stealth capability. Drop me a line via the address in my profile and I’ll mail you copy of the write up if you want it.

KS Lev +1. Stock remote is fine and works well w/front shifters. If you go 1x, get the Southpaw remote.

I’ve had a couple of KS shocks,

More than happy with their performance despite my total lack of service.

Gravity Dropper here, 5 years old and only had the plastic guides replaced once, strip down clean and reassembley takes about 20 minutes and do that 2 or 3 times a year, 125 and 25mm drops, slight wobble in saddle if you grab saddle, totally unnoticeable when riding, release mech is fixed point and only the saddle moves so no dangly cable getting in the way, remote drop lever functional and quite tough as its resisted many crashes without issur. Wouldn’t change for anything else and definitely the best upgrade I have made.

If you do get the Giant post, make sure you tape up the holes under the saddle as thoroughly as possible and even then be prepared to strip it down and clean the mechanism regularly if you want it to survive a British winter. Every one that I have known about has been back to Giant or failed after two years.
Edit:
If you can run the newer version in stealth mode, most of the problems should be solved. It is water/crap getting into the upward pointing button that operates the gas strut that causes the issues and in stealth mode it points downward

Gravity Dropper +1 for the reasons already stated… And if it does fail out on the trail for some reason, it can be bodged to get you home… No shockpumps,no bleeding fluid 😉

Got a KS & a Gravity dropper both have been very reliable, the KS is smoother, but a little heavier not really had any major issues with either over the past 3 years, just got to give them a bit of love now and again and its all good.

KS Lev 18mths and faultless.

I’ve got an original Gravity Dropper. Seriously ugly piece of kit and the first one I had snapped off at the seat mount after a couple of years, but I noticed the replacement part had been beefed up and has since lasted 5+ years of hard riding. It’s not pretty or particularly well engineered, BUT it does work well.

I like the sound of the Specialized post with 3 position drop. Makes a lot of sense to have a best pedalling, cruising and full on DH position. I think I’d prefer that to an infinite position dropper. 125 mm drop sounds perfect too.

LEV +1. Have one on each bike with the southpaw. Both have required a service/repair in the last 18 months…but Jungle are great (really fast turnaround) and it came under the two year warranty too.

Had a reverb originally… but had endless problems bleeding and cable routing issues.

Sorata Pro has a very nice feel to it, much better than the original GD copies.
Also good price too (£80ish)

Having said that, I’ve just taken mine apart to fit a longer cable for a different bike, and the bolts holding the pin cover have stripped the thread in the body, so its next to useless 🙁 Waiting to hear back from the shop…

I love my spesh command post, i timed a service the other day and it took me 8 minutes. And thats including remove it and putting it back in the frame.

Hmmm, that MBR test has the RSP Plummet as the worst one. I’ve just bought one for my wife for Christmas off the back of positive comments on here. It is MBR though.