9point8 comes to the UK

9point8 might be a new name to you, but it’s a well-respected maker of dropper posts up there in that Canadia. Its range of droppers is huge, with 75mm drop on a 325mm post up to a whopping 175mm dropper (on a 500mm post) available. The internals of the post are licensed out to Race Face and Easton for their upcoming Taiwanese-made posts, but these are all CNC machined in the good old Canadia of Eh!

It has just announced that it’s going to be brought into the UK by Shore Lines in Sheffield (purveyors of Chromag, North Shore Billet, Dissentlabs and Whistler Performance Lubes) and the posts should start to appear in January. They’ll be available in 30.9 and 31.6mm and will cost £349.

Some details for you:
Featuring a mechanically controlled air spring utilising 9point8’s own “DropLoc” braking system, the Fall Line offers an infinitely adjustable stroke controlled by a multi position ergonomic thumb lever. Independent seat angle and fore/aft adjustment combined with inline or offset seat clamp configurations provide optimum saddle postitioning. Titanium seat clamp hardware helps reduce weight. Cables are good old steel shifter cables for simplicity and ease of replacement.
Available in 30.9 and 31.6mm diameters and 325/75, 350/100, 375/125, 415/125, 440/150 and 500/175 length/stroke options

There’s a fancy quick cable release at the base of the post too for travelling or swapping between bikes.

For more info, see Shore Lines’ Website – www.shore-lines.co.uk

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Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

Comments (5)

MattMatt December 10, 2015 at 9:56 pm

May I be the first to say…. £375 for a seatpost! Eeek!

barneybarney December 11, 2015 at 9:46 am

£350 – it was a typo.

honourablegeorgehonourablegeorge December 11, 2015 at 11:25 am

May I be the first to say…. £350 for a seatpost! Eeek!

Was tempted by these, but £350 when a 150 Stealth Reverb can be had for €280(£200)? Thanks, but….

Dan EmeryDan Emery December 11, 2015 at 12:29 pm

Yep, don’t see them shifting many of these

longcrankslongcranks December 12, 2015 at 9:58 am

175mm drop – excellent news for the long limbed like myself when 150mm just doesn’t quite cut it. And cable release has to make more sense than the frustratingly damage susceptible hydraulic system on the reverb.

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