Fox Teases new “Infinite Adjust” Dropper Post

I like my reverb, but I’m with Jbikes…I’ve often wished the doss had an internally routed option…3 positions would be great.

love how they are doing the sram “black gold” rather than kashima coat

Infinite adjustment is the only way to go imo. When we first made our dropper seatpost back in 2001(I invented the modern day dropper) we made the first prototype from a modified RockShox suspension seatpost which had 3 positions with a total drop of a little over 2″. When I made the first dedicated dropper, we made with infinite adjustment( and 3″ of drop) and never looked back.

Owning both, I have to say that I prefer the three-position droppers over the infinite. I find a handful of repeatable positions is less distracting than trying to get the ‘right’ amount of drop in a challenging situation. While nobody’s are as fit-and-forget as I’d like, the 3-position posts have also been more reliable in my experience.

@boom,

Trek has an “auto drop” seat post patent. It is a 3 position design. Drops from high to medium position with one spring. The rider then has to push it to the bottom and it will return to the top position.

So, some rider input still needed. But it would drop a bit when you get surprised in a section while standing which is nice.

To elaborate my stand (if anyone actually cares), I feel infinite drop posts require one to “hover” down to get to whatever non-full drop setting they want (or hover the seat up to a desired position). This is often difficult to do depending on terrain and adds to leg strain (yeah maybe not much, but). The preset option allows me to just drop my weight until I hit the stop. I have also yet to seen any advantage in varying my midway position minutely or significantly from the standard ~2″ mid plus full drop that has become the norm.

And do people ever go through something and think, yeah that 1.98″ drop wasn’t enough, but my full 5″ would be too much. Need to dial in 2.785″ drop memory to I nail it perfectly next time. Too each there own I guess.

I’m laughing at people trying to draw fences around what is a subjective issue.

“No, infinite adjust is better.”

“No way, predefined positions is better.”

How about: Try them both and see what works for you.

However, it seems that “dropper inventor” jeff has the final say on what is right/wrong. Thanks jeff for telling us which one we need to be riding without giving any thought to the possibility that this entire topic is colored with a huge patch of gray.

Sorry MDDF that you took my comment wrong after all it was just my, and the testers at the time, opinions.
I was just stating that my original posts were 3 position and the production post were infinite adjustable, which I still prefer.