Gravity droopers??

These yokes sound deadly, but I keep reading about them seizing up and causing grief, I remember Sean kicking the hell out of his in Djouce. The KS i900 looks reasonable priced but also seems to give hassle. Are there any out there at a fair price that work? Al?

Learn to do it on the fly you freak..I toyed with the gravity dropper seat post for a time..but then I realised I could raise and lower my seat post by using my prehensile testicles..I knew that mutation would come in handy some day..

gravity droppers?? jaysus if I had that kind of money to throw around I'd wrap it around a brick and put it through the nearest window...im heading to starbucks in blackrock with my ghd if anyone is interested

Listen, I know I'm not actually going to get one of these until they become affordable, but people who use them liken them to disk brakes, forks and the like, while they are working.

To be honest when a fork doesn't work for me I generally use a spoon or a knife...but I've never had one stop working mid chomp

Curse you eejits with your nonsense and good humour!

AdamT has one that looked hassle free and not that expensive from memory!!

I put one on my new nomad recently and i love it. Its a crank brothers joplin with a remote. It took about an hours worth of riding to get used to but i wouldn't go back to a rigid one on that sort of an all mountain bike. There's a tiny bit of lateral play in it but i wouldn't notice, i'm not the smoothest rider. It came with detailed service instructions and i've greased it up once since i got it. It has yet to be on the receiving end of a mucky irish winter though...

pic of it here:
http://adammccarthy.ie/images/nomad/IMG_0081.jpg

If I had read this month's "What Mountain Bike", which of course I haven't, I could have read a comparitive test on all the available "gravity dropper" type seatposts!
From what I understand the "Gravity Dropper" is the only one that can stand Irish/Uk winter conditions reliably - It is a protective "gaiter" which looks a bit agricultural! Alan Ayling has one of these I think? Specialized have recently brought one to the market which apparently works brilliantly, for as long as it works, which isn't all that long!

I don't see the point, another gymic that the manufacturers have come up with to generate revenue. We live in Ireland, its generally a climb up or a descent down, it takes about 3 seconds to release a seat clamp it you need to lower your seatpost. If your racing full on DH, then chances are the seatpost is down anyway. So whats the benefit???

you're right there Dark Horse
The only time you really need to drop your saddle on your big bike is on the likes of Alan's trail or some other madly steep sh*t
The only time it'd be worth the money is when you're racing mad stuff like the Mega or something
Spend your money on some decent lights and get out in the evenings instead, or buy some nice braces and pull the crotch of your baggies up you flappetty-groined nancies!

I thought as much - very nice bike, very white

the biggest benefit i can see of having prehensile testicles that i can see is that I can now do things i used to need my hands for without using my hands !

thanks Fergal, i'm now pulling the crotch of my pants up with my mutant testicles , thanks too, to Don, for helping me come to terms with my freakish abnormality !

Would you look at all the lads who haven’t used one giving out the advice. They are deadly, after disk breaks and suspension they are the next best thing invented for a mountain bike. If you go uphill continuously to the top of mountains then go down hill continuously back to the bottom, then yep, not much benefit to you. If you are like me and most of your riding involved loads of ups and down’s, and you spend a good deal of time thinking, **** it I should have put me seat post down, or **** it I could have put it back up, then they are for you.

On the money front, again I don’t get it? Are they expensive? Compared to a seat post that just sits thre then yeah they are. Compared to what you will spend for suspension, disk breaks, tublessness, all the other things that make you a happier bunny on the bike, then they are not expensive at all.

The problem is that the current version out there don’t seam to last. The ones on the market at the moment seam to be built by people that live in far better climates than ours. This was the exact problem we used to have with suspension forks until they start putting some thought into what they where doing. I would say in a few years you won’t be able to buy a mid travel bike that doesn’t have one that works fine as standard.

These yokes sound deadly, but I keep reading about them seizing up and causing grief, I remember Sean kicking the hell out of his in Djouce. The KS i900 looks reasonable priced but also seems to give hassle. Are there any out there at a fair price that work? Al?

Learn to do it on the fly you freak..I toyed with the gravity dropper seat post for a time..but then I realised I could raise and lower my seat post by using my prehensile testicles..I knew that mutation would come in handy some day..

gravity droppers?? jaysus if I had that kind of money to throw around I'd wrap it around a brick and put it through the nearest window...im heading to starbucks in blackrock with my ghd if anyone is interested

Listen, I know I'm not actually going to get one of these until they become affordable, but people who use them liken them to disk brakes, forks and the like, while they are working.

To be honest when a fork doesn't work for me I generally use a spoon or a knife...but I've never had one stop working mid chomp

Curse you eejits with your nonsense and good humour!

AdamT has one that looked hassle free and not that expensive from memory!!

I put one on my new nomad recently and i love it. Its a crank brothers joplin with a remote. It took about an hours worth of riding to get used to but i wouldn't go back to a rigid one on that sort of an all mountain bike. There's a tiny bit of lateral play in it but i wouldn't notice, i'm not the smoothest rider. It came with detailed service instructions and i've greased it up once since i got it. It has yet to be on the receiving end of a mucky irish winter though...

pic of it here:
http://adammccarthy.ie/images/nomad/IMG_0081.jpg

If I had read this month's "What Mountain Bike", which of course I haven't, I could have read a comparitive test on all the available "gravity dropper" type seatposts!
From what I understand the "Gravity Dropper" is the only one that can stand Irish/Uk winter conditions reliably - It is a protective "gaiter" which looks a bit agricultural! Alan Ayling has one of these I think? Specialized have recently brought one to the market which apparently works brilliantly, for as long as it works, which isn't all that long!

I don't see the point, another gymic that the manufacturers have come up with to generate revenue. We live in Ireland, its generally a climb up or a descent down, it takes about 3 seconds to release a seat clamp it you need to lower your seatpost. If your racing full on DH, then chances are the seatpost is down anyway. So whats the benefit???

you're right there Dark Horse
The only time you really need to drop your saddle on your big bike is on the likes of Alan's trail or some other madly steep sh*t
The only time it'd be worth the money is when you're racing mad stuff like the Mega or something
Spend your money on some decent lights and get out in the evenings instead, or buy some nice braces and pull the crotch of your baggies up you flappetty-groined nancies!

I thought as much - very nice bike, very white

the biggest benefit i can see of having prehensile testicles that i can see is that I can now do things i used to need my hands for without using my hands !

thanks Fergal, i'm now pulling the crotch of my pants up with my mutant testicles , thanks too, to Don, for helping me come to terms with my freakish abnormality !

Would you look at all the lads who haven’t used one giving out the advice. They are deadly, after disk breaks and suspension they are the next best thing invented for a mountain bike. If you go uphill continuously to the top of mountains then go down hill continuously back to the bottom, then yep, not much benefit to you. If you are like me and most of your riding involved loads of ups and down’s, and you spend a good deal of time thinking, **** it I should have put me seat post down, or **** it I could have put it back up, then they are for you.

On the money front, again I don’t get it? Are they expensive? Compared to a seat post that just sits thre then yeah they are. Compared to what you will spend for suspension, disk breaks, tublessness, all the other things that make you a happier bunny on the bike, then they are not expensive at all.

The problem is that the current version out there don’t seam to last. The ones on the market at the moment seam to be built by people that live in far better climates than ours. This was the exact problem we used to have with suspension forks until they start putting some thought into what they where doing. I would say in a few years you won’t be able to buy a mid travel bike that doesn’t have one that works fine as standard.

These yokes sound deadly, but I keep reading about them seizing up and causing grief, I remember Sean kicking the hell out of his in Djouce. The KS i900 looks reasonable priced but also seems to give hassle. Are there any out there at a fair price that work? Al?

Learn to do it on the fly you freak..I toyed with the gravity dropper seat post for a time..but then I realised I could raise and lower my seat post by using my prehensile testicles..I knew that mutation would come in handy some day..

gravity droppers?? jaysus if I had that kind of money to throw around I'd wrap it around a brick and put it through the nearest window...im heading to starbucks in blackrock with my ghd if anyone is interested

Listen, I know I'm not actually going to get one of these until they become affordable, but people who use them liken them to disk brakes, forks and the like, while they are working.

To be honest when a fork doesn't work for me I generally use a spoon or a knife...but I've never had one stop working mid chomp

Curse you eejits with your nonsense and good humour!

AdamT has one that looked hassle free and not that expensive from memory!!

I put one on my new nomad recently and i love it. Its a crank brothers joplin with a remote. It took about an hours worth of riding to get used to but i wouldn't go back to a rigid one on that sort of an all mountain bike. There's a tiny bit of lateral play in it but i wouldn't notice, i'm not the smoothest rider. It came with detailed service instructions and i've greased it up once since i got it. It has yet to be on the receiving end of a mucky irish winter though...

pic of it here:
http://adammccarthy.ie/images/nomad/IMG_0081.jpg

If I had read this month's "What Mountain Bike", which of course I haven't, I could have read a comparitive test on all the available "gravity dropper" type seatposts!
From what I understand the "Gravity Dropper" is the only one that can stand Irish/Uk winter conditions reliably - It is a protective "gaiter" which looks a bit agricultural! Alan Ayling has one of these I think? Specialized have recently brought one to the market which apparently works brilliantly, for as long as it works, which isn't all that long!

I don't see the point, another gymic that the manufacturers have come up with to generate revenue. We live in Ireland, its generally a climb up or a descent down, it takes about 3 seconds to release a seat clamp it you need to lower your seatpost. If your racing full on DH, then chances are the seatpost is down anyway. So whats the benefit???

you're right there Dark Horse
The only time you really need to drop your saddle on your big bike is on the likes of Alan's trail or some other madly steep sh*t
The only time it'd be worth the money is when you're racing mad stuff like the Mega or something
Spend your money on some decent lights and get out in the evenings instead, or buy some nice braces and pull the crotch of your baggies up you flappetty-groined nancies!

I thought as much - very nice bike, very white

the biggest benefit i can see of having prehensile testicles that i can see is that I can now do things i used to need my hands for without using my hands !

thanks Fergal, i'm now pulling the crotch of my pants up with my mutant testicles , thanks too, to Don, for helping me come to terms with my freakish abnormality !

Would you look at all the lads who haven’t used one giving out the advice. They are deadly, after disk breaks and suspension they are the next best thing invented for a mountain bike. If you go uphill continuously to the top of mountains then go down hill continuously back to the bottom, then yep, not much benefit to you. If you are like me and most of your riding involved loads of ups and down’s, and you spend a good deal of time thinking, **** it I should have put me seat post down, or **** it I could have put it back up, then they are for you.

On the money front, again I don’t get it? Are they expensive? Compared to a seat post that just sits thre then yeah they are. Compared to what you will spend for suspension, disk breaks, tublessness, all the other things that make you a happier bunny on the bike, then they are not expensive at all.

The problem is that the current version out there don’t seam to last. The ones on the market at the moment seam to be built by people that live in far better climates than ours. This was the exact problem we used to have with suspension forks until they start putting some thought into what they where doing. I would say in a few years you won’t be able to buy a mid travel bike that doesn’t have one that works fine as standard.

These yokes sound deadly, but I keep reading about them seizing up and causing grief, I remember Sean kicking the hell out of his in Djouce. The KS i900 looks reasonable priced but also seems to give hassle. Are there any out there at a fair price that work? Al?

Learn to do it on the fly you freak..I toyed with the gravity dropper seat post for a time..but then I realised I could raise and lower my seat post by using my prehensile testicles..I knew that mutation would come in handy some day..

gravity droppers?? jaysus if I had that kind of money to throw around I'd wrap it around a brick and put it through the nearest window...im heading to starbucks in blackrock with my ghd if anyone is interested

Listen, I know I'm not actually going to get one of these until they become affordable, but people who use them liken them to disk brakes, forks and the like, while they are working.

To be honest when a fork doesn't work for me I generally use a spoon or a knife...but I've never had one stop working mid chomp

Curse you eejits with your nonsense and good humour!

AdamT has one that looked hassle free and not that expensive from memory!!

I put one on my new nomad recently and i love it. Its a crank brothers joplin with a remote. It took about an hours worth of riding to get used to but i wouldn't go back to a rigid one on that sort of an all mountain bike. There's a tiny bit of lateral play in it but i wouldn't notice, i'm not the smoothest rider. It came with detailed service instructions and i've greased it up once since i got it. It has yet to be on the receiving end of a mucky irish winter though...

pic of it here:
http://adammccarthy.ie/images/nomad/IMG_0081.jpg

If I had read this month's "What Mountain Bike", which of course I haven't, I could have read a comparitive test on all the available "gravity dropper" type seatposts!
From what I understand the "Gravity Dropper" is the only one that can stand Irish/Uk winter conditions reliably - It is a protective "gaiter" which looks a bit agricultural! Alan Ayling has one of these I think? Specialized have recently brought one to the market which apparently works brilliantly, for as long as it works, which isn't all that long!

I don't see the point, another gymic that the manufacturers have come up with to generate revenue. We live in Ireland, its generally a climb up or a descent down, it takes about 3 seconds to release a seat clamp it you need to lower your seatpost. If your racing full on DH, then chances are the seatpost is down anyway. So whats the benefit???

you're right there Dark Horse
The only time you really need to drop your saddle on your big bike is on the likes of Alan's trail or some other madly steep sh*t
The only time it'd be worth the money is when you're racing mad stuff like the Mega or something
Spend your money on some decent lights and get out in the evenings instead, or buy some nice braces and pull the crotch of your baggies up you flappetty-groined nancies!

I thought as much - very nice bike, very white

the biggest benefit i can see of having prehensile testicles that i can see is that I can now do things i used to need my hands for without using my hands !

thanks Fergal, i'm now pulling the crotch of my pants up with my mutant testicles , thanks too, to Don, for helping me come to terms with my freakish abnormality !

Would you look at all the lads who haven’t used one giving out the advice. They are deadly, after disk breaks and suspension they are the next best thing invented for a mountain bike. If you go uphill continuously to the top of mountains then go down hill continuously back to the bottom, then yep, not much benefit to you. If you are like me and most of your riding involved loads of ups and down’s, and you spend a good deal of time thinking, **** it I should have put me seat post down, or **** it I could have put it back up, then they are for you.

On the money front, again I don’t get it? Are they expensive? Compared to a seat post that just sits thre then yeah they are. Compared to what you will spend for suspension, disk breaks, tublessness, all the other things that make you a happier bunny on the bike, then they are not expensive at all.

The problem is that the current version out there don’t seam to last. The ones on the market at the moment seam to be built by people that live in far better climates than ours. This was the exact problem we used to have with suspension forks until they start putting some thought into what they where doing. I would say in a few years you won’t be able to buy a mid travel bike that doesn’t have one that works fine as standard.