It’s October, which means it’s now socially acceptable to consume pumpkin-spiced everything and ride your knobby-tired road bike in circles for an hour. Yes, it’s cyclocross season. And one of the latest technological innovations showing up between the barriers is the dropper seatpost.
The dropper seatpost is practically mandatory on modern mountain bikes (at least I can’t stand to ride without one) and they are popping up on some cleverly hacked-together setups for road, gravel and cyclocross with increasing frequency. So this week we venture off the trail and onto the cyclocross course to see if there’s any benefit to running a dropper for ’cross racing.
Barriers to use
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Not every rider has enough exposed seatpost to run a dropper on a 'cross bike
First off, running a dropper seatpost on a cyclocross bike comes with some significant hurdles.
For one, today’s ’cross frames are not designed with droppers. The majority of cyclocross bikes use 27.2mm seatposts, whereas most droppers are only available in 30.9 and 31.6mm versions.
Hacking the system together
Tech to come
What do the pros think?
Droppers crossing over?
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