2 Responses to “Gravity Dropper Seat Post”

1. 1 stacey graham  on Feb 19th, 2005 at 5:20 pm

   Yes, interesting to see how this turns out because I’ve been designing one in my head for years. Unfortunately my head doesn’t work too good anymore…

   Years ago (back when they still sold Bridgestones!) I had a device on my MB-2 that was just a spring that attached one end to your seat post and one end to the seatpost tube, and in theory you could loosen up your seatpost quick-release and sit on the seat and the seat would sink and then you tightened the quick release. The problem was that when the downhill was over and you loosed your quick release the spring never quite sprung the seat up into the same place. Dunno about you, but my seat has to be perfect otherwise my knees start to experience pain.

   If memory serves me right it was about a $9.00 device, but just never worked perfect and I ended up throwing it away.

2. 2 Guitar Ted  on Feb 19th, 2005 at 8:30 pm

   Wow, Stacey, that’s too bad that you threw that Breeze and Angel Hite-Rite away, as they are somewhat collectable now.Chances were that your seatpost and seat tube didn’t quite get along the way they should have. A very common problem, even today! A simple seat tube reaming would have solved your problem. Check your bike’s post. If it requires you to twist it back and forth to remove it, you should have a mechanic check it out. It just might need reaming.

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