I have a rarely ridden bike with a suspension seatpost.
A suspension dropper costs £180.
Therefore I’m more than happy to drop the post with a qr for the 1 minute 10 seconds that it is needed on my ride. What’s the quickest way to ensure the post goes back where it should be?
A hite rite would work if they still existed.
Any other ideas?
A cable from the saddle rails to the frame to consistently get the correct height without looking.
What about a hite rite? https://www.bikemonger.co.uk/joe-breeze-cycles-hite-rite-13932-p.asp
Make your own out of a wire coat hanger?
A cable from the saddle rails to the frame to consistently get the correct height without looking.
is a good one. If you're prepared for a bit of trial and error in fitting and have a seat tube bottle boss, a bung fitted to the seatpost that holds some cable with a loop at the end that is anchored by putting a bottle boss bolt in place, can do it all internally and be a useful post theft prevention trick.
I have an old hite rite and with some modification to a QR it was pretty good at keeping the saddle aligned. They're not worth the bother overall though.
I still want something that offers about 50mm of drop without the expense and faff of a dropper post. I have 2 bikes that would benefit from a dropper but I don't trust them for the mileage the bikes do vs the frequency and importance of saddle dropping. But it's always a good thing to have. Suprising how much difference only 50mm drop makes on a flowy but techy XC kind of trail.
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£50, wow. Open to offers on mine, prob got the packaging somewhere.
I had a hite rite. It was useless, I wasn't and still aren't heavy enough to lower the saddle when it was fitted 😂
Just tie a piece of string to the back of the saddle and trim it so it just reaches the top of the seat tube. If you don't like it swinging around use a rubber band or something to clamp it down.
Sew your saddle to the seat of your shorts
make a mark on the seatpost??
Put a mark on the seatpost. The other methods might be OK but won't be perfect. If you're like me and notice when your seat is a few mm too high or low, you'll keep stopping and starting to adjust it which is annoying.
Either mark the seatpost or a wee jubilee clip, a length of gear cable with an end cap at the end - end of end cap rests against the seat collar and the cable runs up to the top of the seatpost (where the jubilee clip sits), tighten jubilee clip to hold the cable in place.
It is flexible enough to not damage the bike when seatpost lowered but strong enough to remain straight to get height back to where it should be.
Marking the post is the easiest, quickest way though.
make a mark on the seatpost??
Handily, my seatposts (dropper and fixed) all have these marks.
5.5 if anyone is asking.
Got a GPS?
Put it on the saddle and set it to the same altitude. 👍
Joe Breeze famously replaced his own Hite Rite with a gravity dropper.
