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Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

My name is Jeff, and today I'm here with Aaron and Greg to talk about mountain bike dropper posts.

So you may have heard about dropper posts if you don't already have one.

So we want to talk about what they are and the advantages and disadvantages. So I thought

I would start off by asking, what is a dropper post? Basically, it's a height adjustable seat post.

So instead of your standard straight post where if you wanted to lower it, you'd have to hop off

and use a tool. This is a post with a remote and you hit a button and the post drops. So pretty

self-explanatory, but that's that's the long and short of it. Yeah. So the way that I like to explain

them is that they're basically like your chair in the office, you know, where you can like pull a little

lever and, you know, take your weight off it. And the way I like to explain it is that

it's like your chair in an office, you know, where you pull a lever, take your weight off the chair,

and the chair goes up. And then if you're sitting on the chair and you pull the lever,

chair goes down. So that's basically how dropper posts work. There's obviously a lot of springs and air pressure and all kinds of things inside there that are working behind the scenes to make that happen. But that's the gist of it. And most dropper posts are going to have some kind of remote where you can easily press the button from your handlebars.

Although some of the older models did have like a little lever where you would have to reach

down below your seat to actually raise the seat up or lower it down.

So what are the advantages?

Why are people running these dropper posts on their mountain bikes today?

So the main advantage is that you can easily drop your posts on the fly without having to

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