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Have you ever had a dropper post go squishy on you? Funn has recently redesigned its Updown dropper post with a unique Twin Tube damper that forces any trapped air out of the damping oil and back where it belongs. The best part? It does it all by itself!
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Hello everyone, it's Will here from
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Singletrack Magazine. You are watching
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coverage from Eurobike 2018 and I'm here
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with Dom from Fun. Hello.
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Hello.
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And Dom's got a new dropper post from
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Fun and we're going to show you how it
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works. It's got a really nifty feature.
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Can you tell us what it does and why it
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does it?
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Yeah, it can be self-bleed and
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you don't really need to strip it apart
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until the air cartridge actually runs
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out of air. And that's about 1 and 1/2
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to 2 years of the hard riding.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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So with what Dom's explaining here is
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with some hydraulic dropper post is you
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can get air past the IFP and basically
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what that happens is you get that kind
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of suspension seat post style thing. So
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can you show us what that looks like
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with this one here?
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Right. So I just press down. So I'm
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going to simulate extreme scenario air
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getting sucked in. So the best way is
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basically for me to turn it upside down
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and let the air goes in.
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And
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You shouldn't do that by the way.
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Yeah, never ever do that.
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All right.
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With a normal dropper post.
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Especially on a normal dropper post on
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the back flip. Don't ever do that.
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Right. So what you get you end up having
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this and that's how it is when you have
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a 6-month to 9-month used drop dropper
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post especially hydraulic ones. Air gets
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in they get stuck and then you get this
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um
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bobbing effect.
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Yeah, I've had that with a few different
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dropper posts on test bikes. So if you
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have the bike upside down say if you're
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taking the rear wheel off to fix a
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puncture and you accidentally actuate
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the dropper post then you can end up
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with that sort of squishy dropper
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afterwards which is really annoying and
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otherwise you have to strip the whole
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thing apart, bleed it to get that air
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out of the system, right?
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Yeah.
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But this you don't have to do that.
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have to do that.
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A lot of brands have other options with
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a bleed valve with a bleed lever. We
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don't have anything if you have noticed
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here.
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So what we need to do for this is a very
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simple,
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uh,
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thing
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right now.
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So, what we're going to do is we're
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going to uh
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push this all the way down
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and just pop it up. And
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now
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it's all being reset.
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Hold on.
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If my muscle arms can't do it, then, uh,
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don't break the table.
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So, it actually self-bleeds.
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Self-bleeds itself. Self-resets, uh, in
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in a technical term.
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Yep.
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You actually self-reset the whole
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dropper post that between the oil and
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the air because it has a twin chamber
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that pushes the air out and basically
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recycle them back to where it's supposed
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to be.
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That is very impressive. So, that's the
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new Funn Up Down dropper post,
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completely new inside. There's a few
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different travel models now as well.
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Where can people get more information
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about this?
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Um, just go to our website at
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www.funnmtb.com.
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Okay. There you go, pretty impressive
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demo. Uh, Dom, thank you very much for
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your time.
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Thank you.
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All right.
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Cheers.
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