The Divine was always BikeYoke’s more affordable of their premium dropper posts, and now the new Divine 2.0 adds more travel options, more seatpost sizes, and even lower pricing across the board. The BikeYoke concept remains unchanged. You still get a premium dropper post that can easily be serviced and will never get spongy from air getting past its seals, just with simplified internals that keep costs down.
The new 34.9 option is big news for anyone with a bike using the larger diameter standard, and probably suggests we’ll see more bikes get OEM BikeYoke droppers, out of the box. And now travel options from 125-213mm for all diameters just means more possibilities to get the most possible dropper travel on your current bike. The fact that the new Divine 2.0 is up to 1/4 cheaper than when it debuted years ago is just icing on the cake…
BikeYoke Divine 2.0 affordable premium dropper seatposts
BikeYoke had been working on a refresh of their lower-priced Divine dropper for several years. First, they wanted to make a more affordable 34.9mm diameter option, and to make 213mm travel more accessible, too. But while the R&D had been settled for a while, they also needed the industry to recover a bit from its woes of the past few years to have more bikes ready for these bigger Divine droppers. In the meantime, BikeYoke unified the designs of the Revive (now 3.0) and Divine 2.0 so that they could share the same lower stack saddle clamps, increased production volume, and managed better pricing from their suppliers to pass real savings onto mountain bikers looking to upgrade their dropper posts.
What makes a Divine different than a Revive?
The new Divine 2.0 carries on with its simplified internal design that auto-Revives with each up & down movement. That means a Divine dropper will never need to have an internal cartridge replaced because of air getting into the hydraulics, since any air getting past the seals is automatically purged from the system. Anyone who has ever had their dropper go spongy and start bouncing up and down can appreciate that.
To make that work, it does add slightly more seal friction, which also means about 1/3 higher internal air pressure to get it up and down. The downside of the simpler design is that it requires a bit more force to drop (not an issue for most riders, especially not anyone who weighs 80+kg, like me). BikeYoke says it is a bit louder too, although not something I really noticed. And it is about 10-30g heavier than the comparable Revive 3.
There are several benefits, though. One, the Divine is a bit simpler than the Revive. That means it is a bit easier to adjust internal air pressure to suit how fast you prefer it to return. There are fewer small parts to fiddle with. And it costs a third less than a Revive. The new BikeYoke 2.0 certainly isn’t a low-cost dropper. But it is one that you can be sure will keep dropping smoothly for years to come, if you are willing to service it every season or two.
Review: On the bike, do those differences matter?
In use though, to be honest, setup was almost the same as the Revive v3, and it doesn’t feel all that different thanks to new lighter action at the remote. Push the button, it goes down, push it again, it goes back up. The fact that it just auto-Revives makes it even simpler. You can feel the little bit of extra friction if you are just pushing the seat down by hand (and have a similar Revive 3 to compare back-to-back with the Divine 2). But under my butt, I didn’t notice anything really different.
It just works, and it promises to keep working. And then, can be easily rebuilt when it does show signs of wear.
And that’s why I measure other droppers against BikeYoke as a baseline. Just now, the Divine 2.0 lowers the cost of entry to that reliable performance benchmark even more.
Tech details
- mechanical dropper seatpost with automatic air-purging/self-bleeding hydraulic internals
- available in 30.9 or 31.6mm with 25mm upper tube, or 34.9mm with 28mm slider
- offered in 125, 160, 185 & 213mm dropper travel
- travel can be reduced up to 20mm in 5mm increments to maximize travel for your frame/saddle height (with included spacers)
- piston shaft is now steel, which adds ~30g (was a rolling update even to the original Divine)
- 2-bolt head, compatible with round & oval rails
- shorter 37mm stack height and shorter overall length (-5mm) shared with Revive 3.0
- user serviceable and fully rebuildable, even 30.9 & 31.6 lowers can be swapped if you get a new bike
- affordable spare parts & rebuild kits available to dealers & online to end consumers
- cable actuator at the base of the dropper can be rotated 360° tool-free to clear seattube bends or bottle bosses
- claimed 20% lighter remote feel than the original first-gen Divine
- rated to -10°C / 14°F
- claimed weights:
30.9mm is 470g (125mm), 530g (160mm), 570g (185mm), 640g (213mm)
31.6mm is 490g (125mm), 550g (160mm), 590g (185mm), 670g (213mm)
34.9mm is 540g (125mm), 605g (160mm), 645g (185mm), 720g (213mm)
BikeYoke Divine 2.0 dropper – Pricing, options & availability
The new BikeYoke Divine 2.0 now comes in three diameters, and all offer the same 4 travel options – 125, 160, 185 & 213mm (each of which can be internally reduced by up to 20mm with included spacers.) The 30.9 & 31.6 share the same chassis, while the all-new 34.9 gets larger upper and lower tubes, which greatly increase stiffness and also improve smoothness a bit, without adding much extra weight.
The Divine 2 retails for $260 / 259€ in the two smaller diameters (30.9 & 31.6), no matter its travel. That’s between 10-24% cheaper than the original Divine was when it was introduced 6.5 years ago, which also didn’t include the longest travel option.. We asked BikeYoke how the price went down while it seems like the price of everything has increased in recent years, and they explained that a mix of design & manufacturing refinement and simple efficiencies of scale enabled them to pass those savings onto the customer.
The larger 34.9 droppers are a bit more expensive at $320 /299€. But even though the bigger diameter wasn’t yet available in the original Divine, that’s still generally cheaper than the smaller originals. Plus, that’s almost 1/3 cheaper than the Revive Max in its large diameter, long travel option.
The new, more affordable Divine 2.0 dropper posts are all available now, directly from BikeYoke’s website, or through their retail partners & bikeshops globally. BikeYoke Triggy remotes are available separately for $ 60-69 / 45-65€.
