I keep on seeing photos of bikes with the dropper post down, I personally think it should be up for photos as it just looks right.
Consensus please.

Posted 4 days ago

Half way for me

Posted 4 days ago

I think that means you’re wrong twice.

Posted 4 days ago

Removed and replaced with standard post as it looks better

Posted 4 days ago

Right, two options, up or down.
No log burners, no boutique titanium posts, no picolax, just one or the other.

Posted 4 days ago

Never half way. Ever.

Up for large bikes (avoids gate look).
Down for small bikes (rad bikes looking radder).

Posted 4 days ago

Up if the photo is taken with the device above the top tube, down if the photo is taken from down low.

Posted 4 days ago

Depends on the bike and length of seatpost. Bikes with low top tubes and long posts look daft with the post up. I know because I have one.

Posted 4 days ago

Depends on the spot! Out on the ridge of a hill/mountain with an epic view, up. Half way down a gnarly descent, down.

The setup should suit the tone for sure.

Posted 4 days ago

down, my bikes look better with a shorter seatpost than i need to actually ride it with.

Posted 4 days ago

The only way is up, baby.

Posted 4 days ago

Right, two options, up or down.
No log burners, no boutique titanium posts, no picolax, just one or the other.

Watch out for the baby robins.

Posted 4 days ago

Half way for me

Urgh, worst of both worlds. Like a semi erect penis, neither up enough to be useful, or down enough to be out of the way for riding. Mike Kazimer from that Pink website always does this.

I’m in the up camp, because force of habit from the reverb mk1 days means I always have the dropper up when I get off the bike anyway.

Posted 4 days ago

Consensus please.

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😭

Doesn’t matter. Not like the angle of your cranks in said pic…

Posted 4 days ago

Urgh, worst of both worlds. Like a semi erect penis, neither up enough to be useful, or down enough to be out of the way for riding.

Mine’s normally half way down when I stop and climb off.

Posted 4 days ago

Saddle same height as bars

Posted 4 days ago

Down unless the bike is hanging from something by the nose of the saddle.
Then its up for seatpost not sucking air in reasons.

Posted 4 days ago

Right, two options, up or down.

I suspect you will have a few that argue there isn’t a binary choice to make.

Posted 4 days ago

Down for a dirt jump bike, 4x bike or BMX, up for an xc, trail, aggressive xc, light enduro or full enduroist rig.

Posted 4 days ago

My jeans have a button fly so I can drop them to my ankles. This is very handy both in good times and when having a shart. However, no picture of me getting jiggy or have a dump with my trousers round my ankles is ever going to make it onto the internet. I treat my bike in the way I’d like to be treated myself.

Posted 4 days ago

I’m going to say up, but it probably depends on the angle.

My evidence – no photos in this entire thread to back up opinions:

Posted 4 days ago

Always up, for me. If it’s down, you can’t get an idea of the shape of the bike… Oh, and always right angle on, taken about waist height – for the same reasons (see the blue bike above, which appears to have a 24in front wheel and 36in rear wheel…) 🙂

Posted 4 days ago

Down to show I how much gnarly shredding I’m doing as I ride through the middle of fields.

Posted 4 days ago

(see the blue bike above, which appears to have a 24in front wheel and 36in rear wheel…) 🙂

Reverse Mullet innit

Posted 4 days ago

@kayak23

You missed DH bikes from your list. There’s probably other N+1 niches which need your wisdom as well 😉

Posted 4 days ago

@chipps that’s a Ray Billy, quicker steering and extra momentum from the back. Thought you were supposed to keep up with trends.

Posted 4 days ago

depends, if you are Foufou de Lala and you’re showing off your new carbon wonder bike, then as @chipps describes, proper picture please, but then again, some bikes look pretty damned cool with the post down.

Posted 4 days ago

Oh, well, if it’s a Ray Billy, then that’s just fine. You could have lined the cranks up though…

Saying that, though, there’s another one to ponder. Cranks level (nearest crank forward, of course)? Or with the drive crank at about 4 o’clock so that it fills the negative space better? (That is seriously Orange’s reasoning for their crank angles in studio shots…)

It’s a fashion minefield!

Posted 4 days ago

Orange and fashion in the same sentence?
😉

Posted 4 days ago

and always right angle on, taken about waist height

Hell no! It’s not a passport photo!

Composition is everything.

Particularly with something like a fatbike, you want to accentuate the tyres and so a low angle, sometimes the actual floor, front or rear is best.
Bikes look flat side on, like a technical drawing.

Posted 4 days ago

Up, unless it looks completely out of place for the setting, like halfway down the Champery DH track or similar.

Posted 4 days ago

Not my photo Chipps, my cranks are always level I’ll thank you very much.

Posted 4 days ago

Down

Posted 4 days ago

Up

Posted 4 days ago

28.99% up. There’s no other way.

Posted 4 days ago

Down!

Posted 4 days ago

Up! There are some bona fide monsters on here!

Posted 4 days ago

Up.

Posted 4 days ago

Down, at full extension my saddle is up in the clouds!

Posted 4 days ago

Up.
Down makes it look like a small child is riding an adult’s bike.

Posted 3 days ago