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Long travel is great! (Product Review)

The Good

Long Travel. Fantastic remote. Easy to add air. The seat clamp is awesome.

The Bad

Leaks air. I sent mine back 4 times now.

Overall Review
When the seat post is not leaking air it is GREAT! The long travel is wonderful. The seat clamp is the best out of all the droppers. Once you get the angle set (tilt) of your seat you never have to worry about it. If you have to add air you can undo the two side solds that adjust the forward / aft of the seat and flip it open to add air easily to the dropper. Mine has failed 4 times. Logest it has gone without failure is 6 months. 9.8 support is easy to work with and does a great job. Just seem to have a ‘lemmon’ of a dropper. They promesied that it should be good to go from now on. We shall...
Posted by jaredstokes on 12/21/2018 5:39pm
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Dropper the Mic (Product Review)

The Good

Beautiful construction, smooth action, and easy installation

The Bad

Slow shipping, a tad heavy, and a little extra cable length is needed

Overall Review
So far, this has been a great seat post. It's easily the best looking and most well engineered dropper post I've owned. I was concerned install would be difficult, but it was super easy. I used their digit actuator with ispec adapter. Cable installation, shortening, and adjusting is so much simpler and quicker compared to a hydraulic system. I ended up with a longer cable length compared to previous posts, this is partially due to running it through the frame vice externally like on my previous bikes. The digit lever works great. Actuation is quick with a short and light lever action. The post...
Posted by VonR on 9/9/2017 3:29pm
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Amazing Seatposts (Product Review)

The Good

Reliable Home serviceable Amazing customer service

The Bad

Can't think of anything!

Overall Review
Amazing seatposts. Great range of sizes (currently have 2 175mm and 1 200mm. Quality product, nice to see a company that really cares about their products. Pretty sure the guys who designed them are nuclear engineers or something like that? Super easy to service at home. No more reverb rebuild bills...
Posted by jim_fuller on 8/17/2017 3:53pm
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Tested: 9point8 Fall Line Dropper Post (Product Review)

Overall Review
We have a love-hate relationship with dropper posts, because although things are looking up, we’ve yet to find the perfect solution to building a telescoping, remote-controlled tube that allows you to get your seat out of the way at the push of a lever and do so with absolute reliability. We are perhaps being unreasonable, as components that need no service and never break are not exactly commonplace, but we have many dropper post failures behind us that still leave a sour taste in the mouth and we want posts that do better. Coincidentally, so did the good people at 9point8 which is why the...
Posted by iceman2058 on 8/13/2017 2:09am
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f'ed deeply (Product Review)

The Good

nothing, it looks good on paper but doesn't actually live up to the hype.

The Bad

constant malfunctions, unable to reach anyone at 9point8 about repairing it. worst customer service ever

Overall Review
I really want to love this post, it checks all my boxes. 200mm of drop, mechanical cable actuation, microadjust saddle angle, and the ability to remove the saddle without losing the angle setting. Unfortunately my post has been plagued by problems from the start. After the first ride it had leaked down to nothing in the air spring. A couple rides later the brake started slipping and a "brake reset" did not remedy the issue. I was forced to disassemble the post to clean contamination off the brake and out of the air chamber. A few rides later the brake started slipping again, no way in hell the...
Posted by casey.coull.56 on 4/13/2017 12:53pm
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Tested: 9point8 Pulse Stepper Seatpost (Product Review)

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Review by Fred Robinson // Photos by Ian Collins With trail, all-mountain, and enduro riding progressing over the past couple of years, innovations like the dropper post have become a standard on an increasing number of bikes. With the demand high, dropper post manufactures have approached the problem of a bike designed for both climbing and descending in a number of ways. This makes your adjustable post choice a difficult one as there are quite a few viable options on the market. 9point8, a new company based in Ontario, might stir the pot a bit when the time comes to make that decision. We...
Posted by FredLikesTrikes on 10/3/2013 9:47am
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