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I keep on seeing photos of bikes with the dropper post down, I personally think it should be up for photos as it just looks right.
Consensus please.
Half way for me
I think that means you're wrong twice.
Removed and replaced with standard post as it looks better
Right, two options, up or down.
No log burners, no boutique titanium posts, no picolax, just one or the other.
Never half way. Ever.
Up for large bikes (avoids gate look).
Down for small bikes (rad bikes looking radder).
Up if the photo is taken with the device above the top tube, down if the photo is taken from down low.
Depends on the bike and length of seatpost. Bikes with low top tubes and long posts look daft with the post up. I know because I have one.
Depends on the spot! Out on the ridge of a hill/mountain with an epic view, up. Half way down a gnarly descent, down.
The setup should suit the tone for sure.
down, my bikes look better with a shorter seatpost than i need to actually ride it with.
The only way is up, baby.
Right, two options, up or down.
No log burners, no boutique titanium posts, no picolax, just one or the other.
Watch out for the baby robins.
Half way for me
Urgh, worst of both worlds. Like a semi erect penis, neither up enough to be useful, or down enough to be out of the way for riding. Mike Kazimer from that Pink website always does this.
I'm in the up camp, because force of habit from the reverb mk1 days means I always have the dropper up when I get off the bike anyway.
Consensus please.
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😭
Doesn’t matter. Not like the angle of your cranks in said pic...
Urgh, worst of both worlds. Like a semi erect penis, neither up enough to be useful, or down enough to be out of the way for riding.
Mine's normally half way down when I stop and climb off.
Saddle same height as bars
Down unless the bike is hanging from something by the nose of the saddle.
Then its up for seatpost not sucking air in reasons.
Right, two options, up or down.
I suspect you will have a few that argue there isn't a binary choice to make.
Down for a dirt jump bike, 4x bike or BMX, up for an xc, trail, aggressive xc, light enduro or full enduroist rig.
My jeans have a button fly so I can drop them to my ankles. This is very handy both in good times and when having a shart. However, no picture of me getting jiggy or have a dump with my trousers round my ankles is ever going to make it onto the internet. I treat my bike in the way I'd like to be treated myself.
I’m going to say up, but it probably depends on the angle.
My evidence - no photos in this entire thread to back up opinions:
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Always up, for me. If it's down, you can't get an idea of the shape of the bike... Oh, and always right angle on, taken about waist height - for the same reasons (see the blue bike above, which appears to have a 24in front wheel and 36in rear wheel...) 🙂
Down to show I how much gnarly shredding I'm doing as I ride through the middle of fields.
(see the blue bike above, which appears to have a 24in front wheel and 36in rear wheel…) 🙂
Reverse Mullet innit
You missed DH bikes from your list. There's probably other N+1 niches which need your wisdom as well 😉
@chipps that's a Ray Billy, quicker steering and extra momentum from the back. Thought you were supposed to keep up with trends.
depends, if you are Foufou de Lala and you're showing off your new carbon wonder bike, then as @chipps describes, proper picture please, but then again, some bikes look pretty damned cool with the post down.
Oh, well, if it's a Ray Billy, then that's just fine. You could have lined the cranks up though...
Saying that, though, there's another one to ponder. Cranks level (nearest crank forward, of course)? Or with the drive crank at about 4 o'clock so that it fills the negative space better? (That is seriously Orange's reasoning for their crank angles in studio shots...)
It's a fashion minefield!
Orange and fashion in the same sentence?
😉
and always right angle on, taken about waist height
Hell no! It's not a passport photo!
Composition is everything.
Particularly with something like a fatbike, you want to accentuate the tyres and so a low angle, sometimes the actual floor, front or rear is best.
Bikes look flat side on, like a technical drawing.
Up, unless it looks completely out of place for the setting, like halfway down the Champery DH track or similar.
Not my photo Chipps, my cranks are always level I'll thank you very much.
Down
Up
28.99% up. There's no other way.
Down!
Up! There are some bona fide monsters on here!
Up.
Down, at full extension my saddle is up in the clouds!
Up.
Down makes it look like a small child is riding an adult's bike.
just5 make sure your cranks are 90 degrees past your seat tube
Up if it's an XC race bike. You wanna see that stretched out racy bike porn.
Down if it's anything else, pretty much. To remind you what bikes are for (smashing down hills off road, in case any of you bike-packing chain-ganging gravel-biking latte-sipping hipster guys forgot).
Down because my 'down' is still higher than most people's 'up'.
Choose a position that you think looks good - and then be judged 😉
I reckon it depends on the bike. If there was a default it would around the same as the top of the headtube
My god, Covid has a lot to answer for.....
Down unless the bike is hanging from something by the nose of the saddle.
And we're debating saddle height spoiling aesthetics?
Hold it, people are saying the same height as bars but how many spacers under your stem? Saddle level with high bars is not the same as saddle level with low bars.
Dropper post up, cranks level with the floor (drive side forward) and take the picture from the drive side.
If you are looking for the perfect picture then it should be across the trail without anything holding the bike upright.
Alternatively just take the photo, who cares?
Dropper post up, cranks level with the floor (drive side forward) and take the picture from the drive side.
Which sprocket should the chain be on?
Lower jockey wheel at 7 o’clock
Down
^^^ Neither I'd say. Try it midway, level with the bars. 🤔
Up
Looks better up on that Giant NRS. But then it's more of an XC looking frame.
XC looking bikes look better with the post up in my opinion. So do small frames, unless you buy a frame way too small and need a mile long post just to pedal. That looks daft.
Downvote here.