KS has been making a name for itself by providing full featured and high functioning dropper posts at prices that undercut the big names, but their cheapest model of all is a bit of a disappointment.
It’s a bit short on travel at just 100mm, but that’s not much of a surprise at this price. It’s a stepless design that allows you to stop it anywhere within its travel, with a sealed air spring and hydraulic cartridge doing the business.
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It’s reasonably smooth, if not overly quick, with a noticeably sluggish return to full extension in the last third of the travel, all accompanied by lots of squelching from the internals. There’s not much in the way of side to slop and it didn’t develop any up and down sogginess.
The external cable remote is actuated via a small lever at the top of the post that’s operated via a bar mounted remote. The positioning of the actuator and its exposure to the elements means it’s more likely to encounter to dirt over time, but it worked just fine during our sloppy and mucky test period. The post comes with a neat guide to try and tame the external cable, which works reasonably well to keep it from flapping about around your knees when riding.
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