What's the current consensus on this combo? Essential unless you have legs/lungs of steel or just a nice to have?
Doing my first Enduro at Inners next weekend, and I'm 99% certain there'll be loads more to follow, so I'm considering making the investment. Don't expect Innerleithen to have the most pedally stages but I know there'll be some lung burning bits!
yeti said nearly everyone at transprovence were running uppydowny's (mainly reverbs) last year
thats about the most useful post i will attempt today x
As an "unbiased observer" at the 661 Enduro at Innerleithen, there were quite a few people using them. Go on get yourself one...you know you`re worth it 😉
Probably the environment in which they make most sense! I'd get one.
As a seasoned veteran of one gravity enduro event I can testify that my uppydowny seatpost was very useful.
Getting the saddle up to pedalling height saved me a good few seconds on more than one stage at Eastridge.
Great for normal riding too of course.
I use a dropper even for when on single track and it is great investment!
I highly recommend you get one!
I used mine at Eastridge last year. I was bobbins, but would have been bobbinser without one.
I don't run one. But then I am fairly use to ride with the post down, or to grin up gear standing or I only lower my seat post from 10cm or I use to ride singlespeed a lot ;).
But if I could justify the money I'll buy one indeed.
P.SS Njee they make the most sense in XMB races 😉
yep get one , I think all but one person had a dropper post at tp . There was a lot of reverbs there but also a lot of broken reverbs. The cable being snagged seemed to be the main problem
Not essential but if you've got one you won't spend bits of the track thinking "I wish I had a dropper post" 🙂
I thought they were the most pointless things ever invented until i had a go on one. Total game changer for me, love them
+1 get one
Used mine at trans p last year and it was essential kit.
I use one everywhere. Get one and ride faster, safer and with more fun/flow.
got one, used it loads, never comes off the bike only wish I had a remote.
I took mine off for the last innerleithen enduro (night and day event), never would have used it on that particular course, but on previous enduro events there it was pretty useful. I've not seen the routes posted for the coming one so could go either way really.
They are bloomin awesome though, don't fixate on the racing, they're great all the time.
TBH I'd probably only use it on certain rides (I mean, consigning a Thomson to the shelf just isn't right!), I'd guess using it sparingly would help the ropey reliabilty of whatever one I chose anyway 😉
EDIT: Didn't the last race have a fire road sprint in the middle of a stage?
legend,
my KS came with a 2 year warranty failed once on first use so decided to run it till the 2 years was up if it failed again would go for money back.
Still going fine (touch wood) once you fit it you'll keep it
legend - MemberEDIT: Didn't the last race have a fire road sprint in the middle of a stage?
Aye... so I sprinted it 😉
FWIW both my posts have been very reliable, as reliable as a standard seatpost really... The KS took some time to get going, didn't work from new and Superstar needed 2 stabs (and one round of blaming me) before they could fix it... But it's been fine since. The Gravity Dropper just works. I use them both year round too.
You will def need one for next weekend's enduro.
As an example the 3rd stage comes all the way down the downhill trails until the last bridlepath before the arena, at which point you will have to climb back up the path to the point where it joins caddon bank for a final descent to finish down caddon bank. So I believe anyway.
In that example a dropper post will definitely be an advantage!
Heh, yes please dropper post for that I think.
Think I'll just walk it 😉