On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 5:10:40 PM UTC-6, Philip Williamson wrote: > > Why wouldn't a dropper post work on a mixte frame? > > Philip > Santa Rosa, CA >
By nature, a dropper post needs a fair amount of extension above the top of the seat tube in order to function. Grant said there would be tons of standover clearance on the new bike, but I guess we don't really know what that means. If it was/is achieved by the "normal" mountain bike means of radically-sloped top tube, short seat tube and lots of seatpost extension, then a dropper would work. But it seems like most of the Rivendell mixtes I've seen (true mixtes with both mid- and seat- stays) have seat tubes that are sized comparable to a road bike and, as a result, have very little exposed seatpost in practice. If anything (thinking of Grant's own Cheviott) people often choose to size up on the frame, and then have even less than normal seatpost extension. Grant's right though. Hite Rite was actually the "first," and I'm glad to know those are still available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
