BikeYoke Revive Max - World's First Dedicated 34.9mm Long-Travel Dropper
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BikeYoke Revive Max Dropper Seatpost
We think that you'd be better served with a dedicated 34.9mm dropper instead of using a shim-adapted post for your high-end frame, like the new Specialized Enduro, Evil Wreckoning, Pyga Hyrax or Slakline and Liteville. Many more bikes with 34.9mm seat tubes are on the way, as frames are being made lower to use longer droppers and therefore need to be stiffer and stronger.
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More space inside the seat tube comes along with huge possibilities to make the post stronger, stiffer, and smoother, but other post designs fail to take advantage of those circumstances. However, the biggest design flaw (in our opinion) is that those small upper tubes do not really match with the oversized seat tubes. A bike of this price range deserves a properly designed and good looking post, period. To be fair, there is one dedicated 34.9mm post with an oversized upper tube: Specialized´s newest creation. However, this post only offers 115mm of travel.
BikeYoke now proudly presents the world´s first dedicated 34.9 dropper post, which was solely and completely designed for the oversized seat tubes. Revive Max features a 28mm stanchion (original Revive is 25mm), optimized wall thicknesses, and increased bushing strength, all while keeping the market´s shortest stack height and extremely low overall length for each travel option, as is already featured by its smaller Revive siblings. This minimizes the weight penalty to less than 50g compared to a (160/31.6), resulting in a total weight of 590g for the post only, which is still lower than many competitors with less travel and smaller diameter. One should not forget that the added weight is even less when you consider that there is no more need for an extra shim inside the seat tube.Of course, all Revive Max will come with the latest revision of our patented instant reset function and integrated quick-reset lever.
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NEW I-Spec Options for Remote Handlebar Mounting
Another nice feature of our Revive is the possibility to attach the Triggy remote directly to SRAM, Magura, Hope, and Formula brake perches via their specific direct mount options (e.g. SRAM Matchmaker, Magura Shitmix, Formula Mixmaster and others). Our Triggy uses the same interface as SRAM triggers, which means that you can mount it directly to any Matchmaker compatible brake lever. Shimano brake levers can be mated with BikeYoke´s I-Spec adapters, which are available for left (Triggy) and right side (SRAM Trigger) to get rid of an extra clamp and keep the cockpit clean.
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Revive Max will start shipping by the middle of March to our dealers and distributors and end consumers. Pre-Orders from www.bikeyoke.com are starting now and will come with a free titanium bolt upgrade, when ordered before March 15th.
BikeYoke Revive Max Dropper Seatpost
Long story short: here is no rocket science involved, no spaceship materials used, and we did not reinvent the wheel or want to make up fancy stories. We simply came up with a really long-travel dropper seatpost, completely designed and engineered for the beefy, 34.9mm seat tubes that are appearing on a number of bikes. Until now, there was no dedicated 34.9mm dropper post available with travel options up to 185mm. While there have been some brands with 34.9 options, all of them are based on their regular sized siblings, but with original upper tube diameter. That means that those droppers just used a bigger lower tube and kept the general design unchanged.
Revive Max Details:
• Same features as regular Revive
• Stronger than a regular Reviv
• A little bit heavier than a normal Revive, but lighter than many 30.9 and 31.6mm competitors
• Weights: 125/34.9: 530g; 160/34.9: 590g; 185/34.9: 630g
• MSRP (including Triggy remote): 125/34.9: $455 USD; 160/34.9: $479 USD; 185/34.9: $499 USD
• Same features as regular Revive
• Stronger than a regular Reviv
• A little bit heavier than a normal Revive, but lighter than many 30.9 and 31.6mm competitors
• Weights: 125/34.9: 530g; 160/34.9: 590g; 185/34.9: 630g
• MSRP (including Triggy remote): 125/34.9: $455 USD; 160/34.9: $479 USD; 185/34.9: $499 USD
We think that you'd be better served with a dedicated 34.9mm dropper instead of using a shim-adapted post for your high-end frame, like the new Specialized Enduro, Evil Wreckoning, Pyga Hyrax or Slakline and Liteville. Many more bikes with 34.9mm seat tubes are on the way, as frames are being made lower to use longer droppers and therefore need to be stiffer and stronger.
More space inside the seat tube comes along with huge possibilities to make the post stronger, stiffer, and smoother, but other post designs fail to take advantage of those circumstances. However, the biggest design flaw (in our opinion) is that those small upper tubes do not really match with the oversized seat tubes. A bike of this price range deserves a properly designed and good looking post, period. To be fair, there is one dedicated 34.9mm post with an oversized upper tube: Specialized´s newest creation. However, this post only offers 115mm of travel.
BikeYoke now proudly presents the world´s first dedicated 34.9 dropper post, which was solely and completely designed for the oversized seat tubes. Revive Max features a 28mm stanchion (original Revive is 25mm), optimized wall thicknesses, and increased bushing strength, all while keeping the market´s shortest stack height and extremely low overall length for each travel option, as is already featured by its smaller Revive siblings. This minimizes the weight penalty to less than 50g compared to a (160/31.6), resulting in a total weight of 590g for the post only, which is still lower than many competitors with less travel and smaller diameter. One should not forget that the added weight is even less when you consider that there is no more need for an extra shim inside the seat tube.Of course, all Revive Max will come with the latest revision of our patented instant reset function and integrated quick-reset lever.
NEW I-Spec Options for Remote Handlebar Mounting
Another nice feature of our Revive is the possibility to attach the Triggy remote directly to SRAM, Magura, Hope, and Formula brake perches via their specific direct mount options (e.g. SRAM Matchmaker, Magura Shitmix, Formula Mixmaster and others). Our Triggy uses the same interface as SRAM triggers, which means that you can mount it directly to any Matchmaker compatible brake lever. Shimano brake levers can be mated with BikeYoke´s I-Spec adapters, which are available for left (Triggy) and right side (SRAM Trigger) to get rid of an extra clamp and keep the cockpit clean.
Post weights
• 125/34.9: 530g
• 160/34.9: 590g
• 185/34.9: 630g
• 125/34.9: 530g
• 160/34.9: 590g
• 185/34.9: 630g
Triggy remote weights
• Triggy without clamp (direct mount): 23g
• Triggy including clamp: 36g
• Triggy without clamp (direct mount): 23g
• Triggy including clamp: 36g
Revive Max will start shipping by the middle of March to our dealers and distributors and end consumers. Pre-Orders from www.bikeyoke.com are starting now and will come with a free titanium bolt upgrade, when ordered before March 15th.
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The key to the bike industry is make sure that parts aren't backwards compatible.
Actually, maybe you could adjust that, too.
(Have secondary droppers for that? I don't know)
Bike Yoke 160mm travel 590g post only
9point8 175mm travel 589g post only
Bike Yoke 185mm travel 630g post only
9point8 200mm travel 638g post only (8g heavier for 15mm more travel)
However what is more important to me is the insertion length of these posts. That is something I would be interested to see comparatively since from what I've seen, all the 34.9 bikes don't leave much for post insertion depth.
About the lengths:
Why don´t you just check our website for the length? All measurements can be found under dimensions and weight:
www.bikeyoke.de/en/seatpost-revive-MAX-185-349.html
9Point8 also offers length drawings:
www.9point8.ca/index.php?route=product/product&path=42&product_id=118
Edit: From looking on the forums, looks like the first revised seals were being used in warrant repairs around December 20th.
My revive still has no play, never had any problems, the trigger and actuation is flawless and it runs as smoothly as Usain Bolt.
If it happens that my next dream bike has a funky sized seat tube diameter, I'll check first if bikeyoke offers that size before I would buy the frame.
Since Sakki is still making other seatpost sizes, there is nothing to be upset about here. He's simply taking a bit of risk while doing us all a massive favor. If your frame company of choice decides to use a seat tube diameter that's appropriate for long travel droppers, now you have a solid option for a post to use.
3 years from now this will look like a much more logical progression than Boost.
Congratulations @Sacki
I originally installed a Reverb B2, but it was just so awful: slow extension, stiction compression, un-ergonomic lever, difficult to remove from the bike, and to top it all off ruined a race for me after I forgot to put the seat up before handing it to the hotel valet. I'm sure the valet innocently hung it by the seat, and then it didn't work properly the next day. Also don't forget to put that seat up before you hand the bike off to the guy in the back of the shuttle truck, or put it in a bike stand, or wash it, or f*cking look at it funny. Ugh, what a stupid design, a 1/2 second of forgetfulness to put your seat up should not risk ruining your race/trip/weekend.
I warrantied that Reverb and sold that shit on ebay right quick. I don't think 9point8 34.9 was available yet when I ditched my Reverb, but it looks like a much better design. I've been very happy with my Revive, the engineering design is far superior to an IFP. It's super solid and my only complaint is the lever is a bit short and flexy when mounted to i-spec.
Your Liteville comes with an 8 Pins which is a masterpiece in terms of weight, function and reliability.
Your specialized comes with a WU which is at least reliable and tilts your saddle. Neat feature.
BTW - both mentioned posts are 34,9mm only. Both posts are expensive as f*ck, at least in Germany.
Therefore - we have a market for the revive.
People who own very expensive 34,9mm seattube bikes who dont already have one of the listed seatposts and dont want to slash out the money for either of those! (older litevilles, older enduros). It shares this market with... ...everyone else, including Point8, Vecnum and the rest. Good luck.
well year later, and mine leaks and is NOT user serviceable (unlike prev command post I changed 2 broken collette and serviced) and neither can the shop get the seal kit. Have to send it in... for close to the price (and being ehtout a seat post for couple weeks) I can get a brand new other brand one... no way..
I do like the tilt, but it's not really 150mm drop (115mm+tilt). Wish it was more...
However, when you nedd a little setback on the post the drop increases conciderably and when you need to lower yourself on the bike its very comfortable due to the saddle tilt and the play is not noticable when you ride the bike.
On other posts 115mm of travel feels limiting, on the WU it somehow does not.
Best Regards,
Stefan
Just make the damn thing straight and as long as possible. Even my Voltage FR from 2011 had better insertion lenghts than some modern enduro bikes....
Just look at the Commencal Supreme SX and the Canyon Torque
I don't think any dropper, except the Fall Line, can do this...