Sea Otter 2017: 9Point8 New XC Dropper Post

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9Point8 has been developing a dropper post for XC racers, ‘cross riders and riders with teeny frames.

The new Fall Line post has a 75mm drop and a 400mm length, of which 135mm is cuttable to save a little weight (or to clear seat tube obstructions.) The untrimmed post weighs in at 390g, which is lighter than the KS Lev Carbon Post we just got. There’s also a 125mm drop version of the post that doesn’t have the trimmable option.

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The 125mm, the untrimmed 75mm post and a trimmed one
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Cut here…
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The post needs stealth routing but we can see ‘cross racers making this work
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The family
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9Point8 get Wolf Tooth to make their thumb lever
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Or there’s this lever that will also do over the bar operation.
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The Trigger works like a chicken lever on a ‘cross bike
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‘It seemed so simple but took ages’ – a new clamp for oval rail saddles…

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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.)

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