absolute horse poop! unreliable and take away the challenge of descending…
Like pneumatic tyres take away the challenge of riding over bumps? Like tyre tread takes away the challenge of maintaining traction? The list goes on…
You are entirely correct that people have their own opinions on the matter; but you must be aware that you’re using spurious logic in an attempt to back yours up?
By being able to easily maintain a better position on my bike (by lowering the saddle on descents) means that I can go faster. By going faster, skills such as balance, handling, cornering, braking have needed to improve. Why attempt to develop the skill of avoiding a badly placed saddle, which also tends to leave me in a disadvantageous position, when I can develop generally applicable skills such as those listed above?
i know, i enjoyed the easyness of dropping the post, and descending, it makes descending technical steep terriain ALOT easier, since ive had my normal one back ive found myself very rarely dropping it, and using my weight and the likes (leaning back etc) alot more and thinking about the lines i take and seeing past the next section…
with a dropper i just plonked it down, and bombed it away knowing i was only a brake away, and putting my feet down should the worst happen…
with your seat up in mostly climbing position, you simply cant do that, so you have to use your body to manouvere and adapt to whats ahead…that to me is where the skill comes in…
ps. im not on about descents on singletrack etc, im on about steep roll ins and very steep technical descents usually off piste etc….
i have no reason to diss them, i owned both and wouldnt go back to one now, im enjoyed the basics of the bike again, and its definitely improved my techical skill and thought process when descending..
they are good for what they do, but they are not revolutionary like suspension or disc brakes…
anyways im not just saying my point is correct, people WILL descend better from using them, and do more challenging stuff they didnt do before, and thats good….so to them it may be the next best thing since suspension….
but i firmly believe if you can ride very steep technical stuff with your seat at full climbing height, you have the basis of good technical skill….
at the end of the day thats why people get dropper posts is it not? to allow them to descend more technical things with a lower and thus easier way of descending? thats what i bought mine for anwyays…
tubeless is a good shout too! how did i forget that!