Easton & Race Face drop a bomb with new droppers

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Easton and Race Face are tossing their collective hats into the highly competitive dropper post market with the all-new Haven and Turbine co-branded seatposts.

The posts' 495g claimed weight (30.9mm x 440mm x 150mm, without lever) is inline with their main rivals but we’re most intrigued with the claims of best-in-class reliability. Hopefully this isn’t just another fancy sleight-of-hand trick, and they really are the dropper seatposts you’ve been looking for.

The new seatposts – which are identical except for branding – will use a novel internal mechanism with up to 150mm of travel that Easton and Race Face say will greatly boost reliability over the competition. The shared design features a purely mechanical device to lock the post in place but a hydraulic actuator based (at least in concept) on a mountain bike disc brake.

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Tucked away inside the new Easton and Race Face dropper posts is a novel hydraulic-mechanical hybrid locking system

“The lock mechanism to hold the post in a given position uses a hydraulic system similar to disc brakes but instead of [the pistons] pushing in, they are pushing out,†said Easton marketing director Craig Richey. “We have found this to be an extremely reliable and strong way to lock the post – tested with over 800lb of force when locked – in a given position and there is no mushy feel when sitting on the post, a common dropper post issue.â€

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