Best Dropper Posts 2024 | 6 Posts Rated & Reviewed
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- What is the best dropper seatpost you can buy in 2024?
We put six of the best dropper seatposts to the test to find out. Including the best wireless and cable-actuated models from the biggest brands, this is a competitive test, with all tested staking a strong claim to be the best you can buy in 2024.
Will Rockshox’s spendy Reverb AXS come out on top? Or will OneUp’s latest V3 dropper step up and take the title?
Stay tuned to find out.
What is your favourite dropper post?
Let us know in the comments
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:23 What to look for
01:19 How much drop?
01:59 Price
02:31 OneUp V3
03:39 Rockshox Reverb Axs
04:46 KS Vantage
05:59 KS Lev Circuit
07:00 PNW Loam
08:10 TransX EDP
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My Bike Yoke Revive has been amazing. Super easy action, virtually no trouble and an easy "reset" switch fixed any problem.
For how long did you have it? Any play?
@@LaurentiusTriarius It was on my Ibis Ripmo for 5 years and I had very little trouble. It was reliable and required minimal maintenance. I never had any sticking and I only used the reset like 4 times ever--once after I had the bike upside down for trailside tire repair and that seemed to upset the dropper (not sure why because it's not hydraulic). But the easy reset made it perfect again. I had a bit of squishy play once but my air psi was low then it was fine.
It is a fantastic post, but we thought it too expensive compared to these on test and while it is utterly superb and right up there performance wise, we can't ignore the significant extra cost.
One up V3 is also excellent from the dimensions point of view. It has very small stack height and insertion depth for given drop. If you have short legs and/or the frame with the bend in the seat tube V3 is the dropper to buy.
Its our winning cable post for good reason, it's an excellent post!
Ive owned 4 different brands of dropper post and other than the lever operation I honestly can't see the difference between any of them.
Impressive we can have such in depth videos about about a simple component. Wireless ones are the only ones offering something different but price is stupid.
I've never had a seat post that didn't move down fast enough when I sat my arse on it.
Best price and most reliable with a nice lever are all I'd care about.
To me they all move fast enough but they all developed intolerable amounts of play. I'd pay double any of these to have one last 1+ season without play.
@@LaurentiusTriarius yeah I agree on this. Until that point they are pretty much all the same. Then you get them bouncing when you sit on them etc.
If they are easy to service and rectify that problem then that's good to me but trying to review a bunch of brand new ones and comment on how fast they move up and down seems nonsense to me.
Tell me how they all feel after 6 months of constant use and I'm all ears :)
The differences are small and you'd need to ride completely back to back as we did to notice them in most cases.
Most dropper posts are so good now (like most things on your bike!) the gaps in performance are narrower than ever.
Great for everyday riders, harder for us as testers!
Love my SRAM AXS wireless dropper post. It’s been the most reliable post I’ve ever had. Had it for 3 years now. I have done no maintenance at all and I’ve had zero issues with it.
The AXS posts are very reliable and the Vent Valve is great if they do happen to go a bit squishy.
Needs a 200mm or bigger drop version though!
The best by far is the AXS dropper. Full stop. I’ve used every top brand most a decent but you can’t beat the wireless dropper.
It is incredibly good, if it were cheaper and came in 200mm+ sizes, it would be hard to beat.
After forks it’s arguably the next most important thing to allow capability.
I bought 4 off brand-x ascend to make the whole fleet droppered.
First 2 were £70 each and the second two were £30!!! The bike yoke divine sl on the best bike is 200 g lighter but what, >£300 with the lever. It returns stupid fast (literally shoots up!) while the brand x are a bit slow. I find 100 mm works best for me as any deeper on xc I feel like I’m squating up from quite low after dropping it, that’s the only complaint I’ve got on the divine I have is ~120.
Certainly even a cheap remote dropper for 1lb is still transformational. Sure the HT isn’t 9.5 kg anymore, but it’s much more capable.
They make a huge difference! Tom has long insisted he'd rather ride a rigid bike with a dropper than a full suspension bike with a fixed post!
I’m more impressed at all the titanium oil slick bolts on that purple Transition.
Tom has gone to town for sure! He's not even finished yet! 😂
The “best” without Bike Yoke? Is this a joke? 🤔
and Wolf Tooth?
What about bike yoke are they really more reliable? I'm disgusted spending tons of money on friggin droppers that rattles
@@LaurentiusTriarius I have a Rivive, and my nephew a Divine. Both work fantastically. No nagging and other hassle like I had with Rockshox.
The BikeYoke is a great post and we reviewed it back in 2021 - www.bikeradar.com/reviews/components/seatposts/bikeyoke-revive-2-review
We decided not to include it based on the price, it is very expensive compared to the other cables posts and while it is indeed an excellent post that we rate highly, we focussed on cheaper, more affordable droppers in this test.
We don't Yoke around, we take our testing protocol seriously. (We couldn't not include the pun, sorry!)
The Revive is a fantastic post and if you can afford it, it'll be a solid choice. But its hard to justify the extra cost over the ones shown here.
please tell me that the wireless droppers all use the sram batteries and not some weird proprietary ones.
The Reverb AXS does, sadly the others from KS and TranzX use their own proprietary ones, so we had to use 3 different batteries and chargers for test
Is there like one that doesn't need service every Tuesday and isn't rattling after 2 weeks of use?
I had a older SDG tellis it lasted forever without a service sold it with a bike, since I've had fox, pnw, oneup, tranzx, rock shox... Nothing compares should I get another tellis or there's something else
Bikeyoke. If you're the type of person who never ever wants to service a dropper, it's the one for you. Buy once, cry once.
The Tellis seems a bit hit and miss in our experience. It is a great post though and the new V2 looks interesting, looking forward to trying it.
The BikeYoke is also a great post, but is very expensive for a cable post.
We've had great luck with OneUp posts, the V3 seems even better so far
@@azandets9368 thanks that's mostly what I heard from actual users, it's not that expensive all things considered, especially if it doesn't have play 💀
@@bikeradar thanks for the input, I was coming back from my morning ride I'm kinda fed up with droppers even considered getting a fixed seatpost... To be perfectly honest I'd pay more for a well engineered cable actuated dropper than a wireless, I ditched GX AXS last year for a TRP drivetrain on my main trail bike, banging gears as fast as I could was fun but not caring about batteries and chain slap was a tangible upgrade. Now running TRP drivetrain on two bikes, soon 3 🤘 back to the future...
Where is the new FOX Transfer?
Exactly my Transfer is by far the best one i have!
Sadly we didn't get the Transfer in time for this test, but we have one on the way and will be reviewing it separately soon.
Hopefully its an improvement on the current Transfer, which we've had our fair share of issues with
is AXS king ? (WITHOUT weight/cost as a factor) ?
The button / lever feel ? Is the analog as good in any of those models? Beside maguras.
The Reverb AXS is very good, but it really, really needs to come in longer travel formats now, 170mm is just too short for a lot of riders.
If a 170mm post is fine for you, it's great, but its crying out for more drop!
If you need more, the BikeYoke or OneUp would be our choice. BikeYoke is fantastic, but very spendy, the OneUp is just a brilliant post for a reasonable price
bikeyoke not on the list, yeah can't take this seriously
The BikeYoke is a great post and we reviewed it back in 2021 - www.bikeradar.com/reviews/components/seatposts/bikeyoke-revive-2-review
We decided not to include it based on the price, it is very expensive compared to the other cables posts and while it is indeed an excellent post that we rate highly, we focussed on cheaper, more affordable droppers in this test.
We don't Yoke around, we take our testing protocol seriously. (We couldn't not include the pun, sorry!)
The Revive is a fantastic post and if you can afford it, it'll be a solid choice. But its hard to justify the extra cost over the ones shown here.
Where is Fox? How is PNW Loam in top 6? I have it since april last year, while it works, it's far from the best, replacement parts are expensive and not even worth it because it gets play ... And the best thing, its rebranded TransX lol
We sadly didn't get the new transfer in time for this test, but we are reviewing it soon so stay tuned!
Bike yoke is the best hands down.
It is very good, but it is a lot more expensive than the OneUp and others
Nope.... you haven't reviewed the Bikeyoke Revive or a Vecnum Nivo. Superb posts and the Vecnum is even lightweight. Bikeyoke will bring out their Wireless 213mm post this year so yeah.... best post you can buy in 2024 will be something else than shown in this video.
We have reviewed both and awarded them 4.5/5 stars. The problem is they are more expensive than other options with very similar performance and we have to mark them down for that.
In this case, the OneUp is a very high performance post and is cheaper than both.
@@bikeradar 4.5/5 I wonder what took away those 0.5 points. The price?
Wolf tooth
We've yet to try the Resolve as we couldn't get one for testing, but we want to try it out!
Those long cable lenghts on your bike looks hideous! Fix it please!
Tom apologises for his laziness with the brake hoses and is fixing them immediately!
Where crank bros?
We tested the Highline 11 separately, but didn't rate it as highly as the others here, stay tuned to our website for the review soon!
Useless marketing sponsored comparison.
Where are the actualy best post.
Not including the BikeYoke is a JOKE!!!
No other post is so reliable lightly actuated and precise with no play or whatever.
This isn't sponsored content, we have independently reviewed these posts on their merits/flaws.
The BikeYoke is a great post and we reviewed it back in 2021 - www.bikeradar.com/reviews/components/seatposts/bikeyoke-revive-2-review
We decided not to include it based on the price, it is very expensive compared to the other cables posts and while it is indeed an excellent post that we rate highly, we focussed on cheaper, more affordable droppers in this test.
We don't Yoke around, we take our testing protocol seriously. (We couldn't not include the pun, sorry!)
The Revive is a fantastic post and if you can afford it, it'll be a solid choice. But its hard to justify the extra cost over the ones shown here.
Poor list IMO. The best post isn't even included
What is the best in your opinion?
Best dropper and most reliable at a great price is the Ascend Dropper or Brand X and variants. No need to pay any more.
True. I have the Oneup V2 and a brandx and the performance and reliability is the same.
The Brand-X is a fantastic post, but their future is unknown at the minute, so it's hard to recommend them if the company won't exist soon.
Hopefully they can continue though!
@@bikeradar You could say that about any small company I suppose. Just buy two of them for the price of one of the others.