http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/ks-lev-remote-adjustable-seatpost-first-look-31283
Smart thinking here I feel.
The cable on the "original and best" Gravity Dropper doesn't move either - it's on the "fixed" lower section of the seatpost.
So - nothing new here then.
I was just thinking my wheels are a bit boring, hopefully someone'll reinvent those too and Bikeradar can run a big feature on how awesome it is that these new wheels are ROUND!
I like, but trail bikes should have these built into the seat tubes by now. Lighter, more rigid and overall better.
i also think my 5 could take an extra hole to get the reverb stealth tube out.
Wish I hadn't bothered.
Yes totally forgot the gravity droppers.
The Maverick (now Crank Bros) post and it's derivatives all seem to be in the ascendant from what I see, so for a post-Joplin design this seemed to me like a fair idea. Similar to the Reverb Stealth, but do you really want the hassle of routing a hyro hose inside your frame. I know that it's not something that is done too often but do you really want to have to break/reseal and bleed an internal hose when you want to take the seat post off your bike?
Comparing the evolution of wheels and dropper seat posts as a way of slagging off Future? Are you on crack? Wheels are obviously a pretty mature product, dropper seat posts are a LONG way from being so. Grow up.
"Comparing the evolution of wheels and dropper seat posts"?- I didn't do anything of the sort 😕 "Reinventing the wheel" is just a useful figure of speech. But this is very much a case of inventing a round wheel and declaring it to be progress.
But yes, I'm slagging off Future. Presenting this as a new, exciting thing when the oldest dropper post still available sorted it on day 1 is absolutely ridiculous- either incompetent or biased. That deserves a bit of slagging, no?
No.
I can think of a more fundamental problem with most of the current crop of dropper posts than 'cable management', at least in the grime of the UK environment.
Oh dear. Someone is feeling a little precious.
But $400? Four. Hundred. Dollars. ?! I like the design, and hopefully the innards work well, but I think I'll keep my money for now, and wait another year or two til the average build/ design quality is up there with the best of them (Reverb Stealth, potentially this KS).
i swap my GD between three bikes. Cheaper to buy one dropper and seat than three reasonable set ups. Cabling pah I just twine it between whatever cables are there.