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Had it since about June. Today, I dropped it down and then it just wouldn't come up again. All pressure gone from the system.
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Back to your retailer, get them to send it Fishers and you'll probably have it back in under a week. Mine was.
Can't see me throwing cash at a droppy post, until a reliable one surfaces through all the crap
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Mine did that got it in Jan did 5 rides and same as yours
sent it back to CRC fairly quick turnaround
last rode it in july worked perfect
went to ride it last wed and it would not go down even with no air pressure in it .
so going back yet again not chuffed .
Oh no mate, really starting to go off the idea of a dropper.
Hopefully the DOSS will be a more reliable choice.
If it won't compress or return I'd suggest bleeding it before returning. Mine did this after I took it off the bike for a few weeks and it was very slow to compress amd return to the point where it stopped working. Bled the system then the lever and it's been fine since.
ST yes it may work by bleeding but a £250 bike seat post should sodding well work not need bleeding every 5 rides .
I have some brakes that are 5 years old and never had a bleed and still work great .
When I upturned it and tried to let the air out very nearly got a face full of oil which ended up on the garage ceiling
Fail to see how the industry is struggling to get these posts right. It's all technology that exists, why the difficulty? I'd love one, have the cash waiting, but they seem like a total liability.
Gravity Dropper is fine.
+1 for the Gravity Dropper. 🙂
my gravity droppers fine
Sorry to hear that.
Early days on my Gravity Dropper but going well.
Chris you can borrow mine while I'm out of action if you want? It's a 31.6
30.9 here tom. would need a shim
my wife and I have both had reverbs for the last couple of months, both worked straight out of the box and no issues so far.
Don't think a shim would make my seat post any smaller 😛
Mine seems to be working fine but the compression and return sounds fizzy...suspect it is going to fail some time soon in some way...but working fine for now.
iv got a x fusion 8 months old working fine
I snapped my gravity dropper twice in 6 months and I only weigh 10 stone so they definitely aren't the answer IMHO!
oh yeah - oops. hahaha!
Fail to see how the industry is struggling to get these posts right. It's all technology that exists, why the difficulty? I'd love one, have the cash waiting, but they seem like a total liability.
I've always look at them from an engineering point of view and thought "Christ, that would be bloody hard to get right."
Sure, the uppy-downy bits aren't terribly different from a fork leg, but difficulty is that it's a single stanchion, not a linked pair, so inherently much less stiff - hence why they seem to develop play pretty quickly. The same issue makes maintaining the integrity of the seals pretty tough too. Add-in that they're always going to be in the firing line for cack coming off the back wheel and it's a pretty tough thing to make. Then put potentially 100kg or more on the top and have it jiggle around!
Other single-shaft plunger type things in a bikey environment don't have the same difficulties - Cannondale can make headshoks and lefties massively oversized because they don't have to fit in a seat-tube (hence solving much of the stiffness issue) and shocks have a much shorter stroke length plus much less restriction on dimensions.
I think there'll always be some issues until the designers get more space to play with - either go for 40mm plus seat-tubes or integrate it into the frame!
I snapped my gravity dropper twice in 6 months and I only weigh 10 stone so they definitely aren't the answer IMHO!
Well I guess you got a bad one - but I did a fair bit of umming and aahing and research before getting my GD and it definitely seems there are FAR less problems with it than any of the others. Most people seem to be fairly happy with them - I weigh 16 odd stone BTW and never had a problem.
Big Pete - MemberCan't see me throwing cash at a droppy post, until a reliable one surfaces through all the crap
I love this sort of comment... Every year a new, shiny one arrives and people rush out and buy it, then complain when it breaks and say "If only there was a reliable one". Then we mention Gravity Droppers. Then they say "Yeah but it's ugly, I want a pretty one" 😉 They're as reliable as standard seatposts- sometimes they break, but then so does anything.
steveh, can't remember but was yours a multi-drop?
Ton is spot on = QR lever / hite rite !
when it worked it was one of the best things I'd ever fitted to my bike.
a qr just doesn't cut it.
My Gravity Dropper was very reliable over the 2 1/2 years that I had it, and servicing the moving parts was dead easy. I've now got a Reverb, which is better built and nicer to use than the GD, but I doubt it's going to be as reliable.
I put a gravity dropper on last weekend. All worked fine then my headset fell apart. Go figure.
My KS Post has been perfect since I got it, several mates have the same with no issues, bar one who broke his cable, but that was down to his own particular blend of maintenance skills.
Realistically, the number of posts with issues is likely to be virtually nothing in comparison to the number sold. To not buy one because a small minority of people on a website have had a problem is rediculous.
Of a group of people I ride with, 6 have Reverbs, all have been fine. My Mrs had a KS, which died in a week, ergo all KS posts are junk and no-one should ever consider buying one. That's how it works isn't it?
Me and a mate have both got KS Posts....both been perfect for over a year now.
another two fine Reverbs here
Hob bob your group of 6 is less statistically meaningful than the STW hive as its a smaller sample. It is possible to identify trends, it appears RS have tweaked the design since the first release which did pop up om here as failing. One of the benefits of the net is in identifying failure trends and holding manufacturers to account, its difficult to claim they've never seen a failure before when you can produce names and contacts of other users. Manitou tried this with me way back in late nineties with a snapped brake arch. I pointed them to an mtbr thread, they warranted the lowers.
Yes, but you're only looking at the failiures, there are a lot more working reverbs than there are bust ones.
Mines fine so far, a little play, but I can live with that.
Anyone had the newer model (all black, no silver bit) fail?
Yes, but you're only looking at the failiures, there are a lot more working reverbs than there are bust ones.
Exactly, you can nigh on guarantee the number of failures Vs the number sold will be fractions of a percent.
SRAM/RS being a big prominant manufacturer just means there is a lot more of them now as they have the $$$ to drive the product out into the market.
Everything breaks, the Fox one will break too when it comes out. Anyone expecting it not too is going to dissapointed, because someone, somewhere will either do something stupid, or be 'just riding along' and it went pop.
spoon.... protect the seals.