Dropper Post Used to Win One of Road Cycling’s Biggest Races

Mar 19, 2022
by Matt Wragg  

Milan-San Remo was won today by a racer using a dropper post - a world first. As far as we know, a dropper post has never been used in professional road racing before.

In a thrilling race, Matej Mohoric was able to stay with the biggest names in the sport on the final Poggio climb, then dropped all of them on the descent, holding onto this gap over the final, flat two kilometers to claim one of the biggest prizes in road cycling.

Heading up the Poggio, Tadej Pogaçar had his UAE teanmates set an infernal pace and by the time the race leaders crested the short climb only a handful could hang on. As they crested the summit, Mohoric slipped quietly through from behind, passing Mathieu Van der Poel, Wout Van Aert, Tadej Pogaçar, Primoz Roglic and those select few.

At first he pulled a bike length, then three, then there was a gap. Mohoric used every millimetre of the road, and a few off the side too. At a couple of points he was in the dirt at the side of the road and had to hop the bike back onto the road to avoid disaster.


Milan-San Remo is one of road cycling’s five monuments: five punishing races that have all been running for over a century. At 293km long this year, Milan-Sanremo is the longest one-day race on the World Tour calendar - this is road cycling’s sacred turf. For an invention born from enduro racing to prove decisive factor here says much for how refined the technology now is.

In his finish line interview, Mohoric explained his plan:

bigquotesI was thinking about this race for the whole winter. The team came up with the idea of using a dropper post because this race suits me very well and it has a descent at the end. I knew that if I trained properly through the winter and if I could be in a good enough condition to not be dropped over the Poggio, to be with the best guys over the top, I have a chance to do my best descent, risking a little bit, but maybe being able to hang on for the win.

The team set up a bike for me as we had this plan for a long, long time now. I was thinking at first that it’s not going to make a huge difference on the descents, but then the first time I tried it in training I was amazed how much safer it was. It gives you way more control of the bike and if you’re going full gas of course you can go a little bit faster and it’s easier to avoid mistakes or correct them when they happen. I went all in, I can’t believe it. I’m without words.

Olympic mountain bike champion, Tom Pidcock, was expected to be one of the final combatants in this race, but when the peloton reached the final series of climbs he was quickly dropped off the back looking decidedly under the weather.

The Supertuck used to be the best way to get aero on a descent in road cycling but following its ban by the UCI, could we now see dropper posts become more widespread in the peloton?

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179 Comments
  • 555 4
 Downcity is a hot new category that sits between road and gravel bikes. Expect new bikes and standards late 2022.
  • 49 88
flag N-60 FL (Mar 19, 2022 at 14:17) (Below Threshold)
 Honestly, that would be way sicker than urban DH if you ask me
  • 51 0
 I would argue its enduro-road (RoRo for short).
  • 17 2
 This is the year of the Down Road bike!
  • 7 0
 GG had this covered with the Municipal Haste! last April Fools.
  • 57 0
 @Lanebobane: how did you miss Enduroad
  • 9 49
flag danielfox (Mar 19, 2022 at 21:27) (Below Threshold)
 @N-60: read the full article and no. No one asked you.
Have you ever raced urban DH in Europe or South America? That thing is madness. It requires all the talent on a bike a keyboard warrior like you don't have.
  • 26 1
 @danielfox: True, but I stand by it
  • 10 0
 Roaduro
  • 6 0
 I used to race down parking garages on my litespeed classic with my seat slammed and doing my best impression of a MotoGP rider. Then take the lift back up. Bullhorns no drop bar. Somebody make a road bike with DH geometry, cockpit and brakes please.
  • 5 0
 There was a downhill road race years ago. Lopes and Rockwell competed alongside other mountain bikers and roadies. I forget the name.
  • 5 0
 @WayneParsons: it was a redbull sponospred event. Nuts! Myles Rockwell won.
  • 6 0
 @WayneParsons: did some research..it was called Road Rage!
  • 1 2
 @choppertank3e: you might be interested in checking out Peter Verdone's work at peterverdone.com

One production option along those lines could be evil chamois hagar
  • 5 0
 DownTown was right there...
  • 1 0
 @choppertank3e: Yes! Although I am close with my Surly Krampus - 29x2.25 tyres, dropper, 50mm stem, 67 HA, 445mm reach…
  • 1 0
 Brilliant!
  • 1 0
 @choppertank3e: that would be great but for some reason the big companies cling on to uci regulations… like all of us NEED to go world championship racing with our commuter and training bikes… *facepalm* probably because all the roadie product managers still dream of a uci career during their lunch rides, at leadt at Specialized thats for sure the case
  • 201 3
 Meanwhile some XC racers argue the droppers are not that important and too risky to use in a race because of reliability issue ... what a world we live in ...
  • 60 1
 Agreed. There are even plenty non-elite XC racers who argue a dropper isn't worth the weight penalty. To each their own, but I'll never understand the resistance.
  • 21 0
 Yeah, I always thought droppers were good for XC racing especially how the new XC courses are so technical. Crash aversion and downhill speed are definitely a consideration to use a dropper in XC. When I bought my Specialized Epic 7 years ago, I had to put a dropper on it. Wasn't easy finding a 27.2mm dropper at the time, but it was the best addition.
  • 113 3
 Maaaaann that drift/save in the corner… no crash pads or hay bales… guy would’ve flown straight into the cement barricades and died or at least become seriously injured… that was sketchy AF!

I don’t care what people think, road racers (particularly crit racers) are gnarly
  • 1 14
flag PauRexs FL (Mar 19, 2022 at 12:33) (Below Threshold)
 took them more 10 years to realize some of them it was paid of... you won´t believe me I was trying to convince once Nino it was paid off in 2008 he kept going it wasn´t... Wink
  • 20 0
 @trailsquatch: The same story was with disc brakes some 15 years ago. "Nice, but bro, they are like anchors compared with v-brakes and not even that much better.

And 580 mm flat bars? "Because you can easier squeeze through crowd after the start.."
  • 16 0
 @n-lagasse: Yup, if people feel otherwise, go bomb a hill on a road bike and see what shade of brown your pants are afterwards. That descent was lunacy.
  • 8 1
 @pakleni: Totally. MTB was like a decade ahead of the road bike industry with disc brakes and thru axles. Now both are on every higher end road bike.

The most funny was hearing all the road articles and road bikers against disc brakes because they were so dangerous and people were going to get cut by rotors. Looks like they got over that quickly after bike companies starting releasing road bikes with disc brakes. Lol.
  • 29 0
 @trailsquatch: As far as I know, in road racing, there is a minimum legal weight of the bike, which is easily achievable with modern bikes to the point of teams adding weights to the frame to be legal. This means that the dropper might not carry any weight penalty
  • 2 0
 @thats-joe: indeed!
  • 6 0
 I wonder if we will start seeing them in cyclocross too
  • 3 6
 I removed the dropper from my last XC bike because I thought the weight wasn't worth it. I still think I was right about that. But I put it on my new XC bike, and think it belongs on that bike.
  • 3 0
 @mtb-thetown: the guys from Trainer Road are pushing people to use them in CX
  • 2 3
 @thats-joe: Of course, the issue here is that droppers add that mass basically as high on the bike as possible, which is the second worst place after at the wheels. Mass up high means the bike takes more effort to swing side to side when sprinting, compared to when it is down low in the form of a strategically placed weight.
  • 3 4
 That's a completely unrelated situation. Mohoric used the dropper post for aerodynamic advantage. It's not used for that in mountain biking. No XC rider will say they're not aero enough in the descents.
  • 10 0
 @agul29: It also got his weight (C. O. G) down while cornering seated, and allowed better handling.
  • 4 0
 @ak-77: agreed the little bit of extra weight up high is way countered by the amount he can lower his body mass in a corner. I put a dropper on my commuter, it lets me flat foot at the intersections and when I’m on the couple big hills I have to descend I squat it down and tuck in. Way faster dropped. My CX bike is a Trek Boone and has a seat mast and I don’t like it anymore since I can’t add a dropper.
  • 2 0
 @trailsquatch: I guess if you are an XC racer who is a beast on climbs and flats and doesnt really have great technical skill for descending anyway, you may easily adopt that attitude.
  • 2 0
 @agul29: please read what he says about it! Aero wasn't the point, the article wrongly mix the super tuck ban and the use of a dropper instead....
  • 1 0
 @n-lagasse: yeah that was some balls to the wall riding. that bunny hop back up onto the asphalt, those hairpins around the walls were insane too, definitely at the limit of grip!

As for the dropper, aren't race bikes usually below the UCI limits with mass added to bring them to spec? seems like there would be no penalty to the dropper in that regard.
  • 1 0
 @CTDchris: I think because of the weight limit brands kind of don't focus as much on super lightweight as a few years ago and add more aero advantages to race bikes these days. I don't think many racers are adding extra weight now when they could have more aero (which weighs more than round tubes). Bikes have also gotten a bit heavier because of disc brakes, both the calipers and reinforcing the frame/fork where they attach.

You could stay under 6.8kg on an aethos or similar frame, but probably would be a bit over on an aero race frame. I still think it's worth the weight, and may get one for my personal road/gravel bike.
  • 1 0
 @thats-joe: It's not easily achievable anymore with aero frames, tall rims, bigger tires, disc brakes etc. Most bikes in WT nowadays are over 7 or even 7.5 kg. The limit is 6.8 kg.
  • 3 0
 @MaplePanda: Wait until you hear about the *other* enormous mass as high as possible on the bike that's typically several times heavier than the bike itself, over a hundred times the weight of a dropper and swings from side to side during the sprint. It's pretty wild.
  • 4 0
 Van Der Poel, who doesn't put a dropper on his XC race bike, just got beaten on the road by a guy with a dropper.
  • 1 0
 @SJP: Well VDP might be rethinking droppers after his OTB at the Olympics.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y0TKiP-fTY
  • 1 1
 @tacklingdummy: He was assuming there was a ramp there, so he was pumping instead of jumping. Dropper won't make a difference to that.
  • 1 0
 @bentudder: Haha, wait until you hear about my AXS rider system! Remote control cycling is the future!

Jokes aside, excellent point made.
  • 1 0
 @pakleni: Some of the old-school trails where I lived at the time had very narrow gaps between trees. I never measured but I don't think 780mm bars would've fit LOL.
  • 90 1
 This just in…UCI considering banning dropper posts in road races.
  • 17 1
 3, 2, 1... banned
  • 19 1
 @TEAM-ROBOT: Funny but not funny. Likely because it's true
  • 9 0
 I don't think so, in contradiction to what was said in the article, dropper posts have been used in world tour races for a few races already, mostly on neutral spare bikes.
  • 3 0
 I thought so too, then came those news today www.velonews.com/news/road/uci-confirms-approval-of-use-of-dropper-posts-after-mohorics-milan-san-remo-move
Looks like the UCI has some sense in some way.
  • 1 0
 @natepage1 @TEAM-ROBOT Except the UCI approved droppers for roadies like 8 years ago or something so not really. If anyone is showing unreasonable resistance to them, it's some XC racers, not UCI.
  • 85 1
 Disc brakes, dropper post and wider tyres. Is this a fully rigid mountain bike with drop bars
  • 29 0
 Going back to the days of Red Bull Road Rage

Could we see some in the peloton putting on full face helments and baggies?
  • 8 0
 & tubeless
  • 1 0
 We have come full circle here!
  • 1 0
 They are still running 25s mostly for these races.
  • 68 1
 Damn he really dropped the rest of the field
  • 34 0
 He posted a good time too.
  • 11 2
 Yeah, he needs to start selling a signature model “Drop’em” roadie post.
  • 16 0
 I was going to lower my standards and post a response, but I’m afraid of other commenters railing against me.
  • 12 0
 Super tuck to flat... Il get me coat.
  • 1 0
 Down with the dropper!
  • 55 0
 One man's curb is another man's berm, bravo.
  • 6 2
 He's just copying Fabio Wibmer Wink www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk7rliZpuSs&ab_channel=FabioWibmer
  • 42 3
 You're welcome roadie friends...now have we told you about smiling and acknowledging other cyclists? It's something else you can borrow from mountain biking!
  • 10 2
 Plenty of acknowledgment, you just have to wear expensive Lycra, use cool hand gestures (no waving), and absolutely no smiling.
  • 10 2
 Last time I went on a road ride, every MTB rider blew me off when I waved. Every roadie waves back (ok, most waved back). My route passed by a local trail in a neighborhood, so a lot of people ride there from home.
  • 2 0
 Did you develop the dropper post? What a legend!
  • 4 0
 As a mountain biker, I'd say you have it mixed up. Roadies are generally more friendly and helpful. Sorry Panda, I give this one to the road riders.
  • 3 1
 @agul29: No... I did, back in 1999-2000. I developed the "modern dropper" years before Gravity Dropper, who says there were the first. Hurricane Components was the first.
If you ever want to hear how the Hurricane Components "Elevator Shaft" come to be, let me know, the story is too long to post here.
  • 27 2
 MVP crashed in the Olympics when a dropper would have saved his behind, fast forward to match and he gets dropped on a decent…. I found this quite entertaining but I’m a simple man.
  • 5 0
 A dropper wouldn't have helped him
  • 25 0
 Better than dropping pills to win a race.....
  • 13 2
 Lol pills? You stuck in the 70's! Everything is injectable now!
  • 18 0
 Droppers are awesome on a road bike. This was obviously on the way once the super tuck was banned. Where I live there are long rides up mountain passes and long descents and slamming the seat down makes the bike faster and handle better.
  • 11 3
 Road bikes can get damn light nowadays that if you can fit a dropper post and still hit the UCI minimum bike weight limit then there is virtually no downside other that slightly less aero.
Different topic: this race is 293km long. That is an insane distance to be riding flat out the entire way. These guys are tough as nails.
  • 14 0
 @blackthorne: they are not riding flat out the whole way. Looking at Mohoric's Strava file (he posts everything on there, including data from his power meter), he did the first 150 miles / 240 km at an average power just under 200W which is nothing for a professional cyclist (his average HR during that period was 127 bpm). They really started racing properly in the last 50-60 km.
  • 11 2
 @gth802s: yes that’s pedantics right? Road pros have to pace. 300km is 300km. That’s a long ass race in a career of nonstop long ass races.
  • 2 0
 @blackthorne: It's interesting when you start to look into the weight limits - with the modern aero tech it's not that simple. I know one of the things that held Ineos back from using discs was getting the bikes light enough (although there is a big discussion around why anybody would buy a a Pinarello, imo). Although you'd only want it for a pure mountain stage, which you could use a climbing bike for, which should be simpler...
  • 1 4
 Not quite sure I personally see the point in a dropper on a road bike. On MTB, the dropper gives you space over technical sections and room to catch a slide. My experience is that once a road bike starts to go, you're on the floor before you realise what's happening - no amount of saddle clearance would help. Especially if it's wet or if there's gravel on the road. The threshold of grip is way more "brittle" than MTB. For racing, if there's a long descent, it's clearly worth it in the case of this specific race. But for those of us not trying to max every descent, stick with the carbon aero seat post up very high... (though it might reduce the number of roadies falling off at traffic lights!!)
  • 18 2
 Dropper posts are seriously one of the best cycling inventions ever. If I ever get a road bike I'd totally add a dropper. All bikes deserve a dropper!
  • 4 16
flag agul29 (Mar 20, 2022 at 0:26) (Below Threshold)
 Unless you attend races where you want very fast descents, it would be extremely pointless. Please don't speed like this on public roads. It's dangerous and illegal.
  • 5 2
 @agul29: Illegal? What country do you live in? Since when did riding fast become a crime?

@DylanH93 On my gravel bike I have the left-hand STI actuating my dropper. It's great.
  • 3 1
 @mattwragg: we’ll, in most countries, you are supposed to be in full control of your véhicule at all times. How do you allow a pedestrian to cross the road at that speed?
I know it is funny to trigger speed traps with a road bike (I have done it plenty of times) and still, you are supposed to respect the speed limitations on open roads.
I don’t think Matej was in full control at all times and I do not think he would have displayed such a performance had the road not been closed
  • 1 0
 @mattwragg:
- Any country where speed limits are a thing.
- Literally since the invention of the highway code.

*disclaimer: not criticising riding fast; just quick and easy answers to your questions.
  • 1 0
 @bananowy: Yes and no, on a bike in the UK you could reasonably be prosecuted for riding without due care and attention (which I think is fair enough), but in practice how would it be enforced for an excess of speed? Without a license plate the only option is s radar gun, but of all the shitty things the UK police may do, I have never heard of speedtraps for cyclists. Also, what's the national speed limit, 60mph? I'm not sure the UK has long and straight enough hills to really worry about that upper limit.
  • 1 0
 @Obiwankenoob: I live on the Col de Braus, so I get to watch road cyclists of all levels descend it every day. I can tell you categorically that a good proportion of those riders need every aid they can for their own safety and that of other road users. If I had to choose between a road full of people descending on aero bikes or one with people on dropper posts, that's s no brainer for me.
  • 1 0
 @mattwragg: fully agree with you.
  • 16 0
 "Things that didn't happen in March 2022: Aero Dropper seatposts"
  • 16 0
 bunny hops and dropper posts FTW!!!!
  • 16 0
 But was he running Cush-Core?
  • 10 0
 EF Education First rode the Vittoria tire inserts at Paris-Roubaix last year :-)
  • 14 0
 So next year when the whole peloton is running 170mm of drop, will the last fixed posts in cycling be in XC MTB racing?
  • 1 0
 LOL!
  • 12 0
 I love the dropper on my gravel bike. All my roadie mates used to joke about it but when they saw me actually use it, they understood why I have it on the bike.
  • 5 0
 " just stop and get the seat down bro, why do you have to add weight? "

Yeah, this is common place here, even for trail bikers.
  • 1 0
 @Notmeatall: the last and first 6km of any road ride starting at my farm is on gravel or light off road trails. Dropper post and fat tyres make a world of difference to fun levels, even if I don’t have the absolute speed on tarmac of true road slicks.
  • 1 3
 You have it on the bike for road descents where you have to be more aerodynamic? If you want that, I also advise you to drop the gravel bike and get an aero road bike.
  • 13 0
 They used droppers for neutral support bikes in TdF before.
  • 16 0
 Smart time-saver for getting the right saddle height
  • 11 1
 UCI will definitely ban droppers now.
  • 10 0
 I'm surprised it took until now. Good for Matej for trying something new!
  • 5 0
 The Mavic neutral bikes used to have a type of dropper to let rides fine tune a little if they needed to grab a spare bike. FSA also had these clunkers www.velonews.com/gear/spotted-astana-rides-special-height-adjust-posts-at-tour
  • 1 0
 Here are the Mavic "droppers" www.bikeradar.com/features/dropper-posts-in-the-tour-de-france-mavic-specs-them-on-neutral-bikes
  • 5 0
 @s200s: “He was also using a telescopic “dropper” seatpost which alloeds him to sit lower on the descent, a touch more aero and with a lower centre of gravity. It’s common in MTB racing and rare in road racing but not new given it’s been a feature of Mavic and Shimano neutral service bikes for years as they allow on-the-go height adjustment, plus Vincenzo Nibali and others have used them, so presumably it’s UCI-approved.”

inrng.com/2022/03/milan-sanremo-2022-review
  • 9 0
 Roaduro
  • 1 0
 My roadiebro
  • 4 0
 “I was thinking at first that it’s not going to make a huge difference on the descents, but then the first time I tried it in training I was amazed how much safer it was. It gives you way more control of the bike and if you’re going full gas of course you can go a little bit faster and it’s easier to avoid mistakes or correct them when they happen. I went all in, I can’t believe it. I’m without words.”

This is exactly me using a dropper for the first time. But for some reason I didn’t win anything…
  • 7 0
 mmmmmmdrop!
  • 6 0
 Dude was we getting bc LOOSE on that decent wow
  • 2 0
 Droppers have been used in the Tour de France in recent years on a fleet of shared team bikes.

Follow cars behind the peleton carry spare “pit” bikes in the event of a mechanical. These with dropper posts can be quickly adjusted to fit many team riders in the event of a bike change.
  • 3 0
 Dropper only became usefull since the Supertuck position is ban. It suits very well to the Pogio descent. I wouldnt be surprised to see it in mountain stage on the grand tours.
  • 1 0
 Have you ever ridden a super tuck at high speeds? I have and it’s the least controlled, most terrifying way to ride a bike known to man. Blindfolded would be a little worse I guess. Your weight is all out on that front wheel and your arms and legs are all crammed up which makes the steering incredibly twitchy. No one would ever consider entering the least challenging corner in it.

A dropper is a lot more than just a super tuck replacement.
  • 1 0
 @Blackhat: No worries, I have try the supertuck in multiple occasions. On my side, really confortable to ride in lower speed than 75km/hr and not really confortable to pedal in this position. Also not a fan of this position in races when you enter a steep downhill into a big peloton...
  • 6 1
 Some good foreshadowing on this by Ryan Palmer in the last PB podcast!
  • 2 0
 I came here to say the same thing. @ryanpalmer probably has smile on his dial. It does make a lot of sense. If this does become a thing I can imagine there will be a big investment into new super light droppers which could have some trickle acre benefits with mtb dropper design.
  • 1 0
 "It gives you way more control of the bike and if you’re going full gas of course you can go a little bit faster and it’s easier to avoid mistakes or correct them when they happen."

Yeah, thats the point.

But in all seriousness this is awesome and all the xc holdouts can shut up now about it being too much of a weight penalty. This guy hauled all that "weight" over 293km and kept up with Van der Poel.
  • 1 0
 I'm sure the dropper was the only reason he won. Not like he has skill, stamina, or athletic ability at all....... I mean a couch potato could win a race if he had a dropper, right?
What next, outrage because he used pedals too? How dare he.
  • 3 1
 The reason he has such a low centre of gravity wasn’t because of the dropper, it’s the size of his balls riding like that
  • 1 0
 I rode a dropper on my gravel bike last year. While not "needed," it was nice to have on long descents to relax my legs and shoulders. After may hours on the bike, changing position just a little is a welcome relief.
  • 1 0
 Maybe companies will bring back the 27.2 post instead of this aero silliness to allow for some customization Or they'll make proprietary teardrop shapped droppers and we can all laugh
  • 1 1
 This is a good use of a dropper post on a road bike. There are 300g droppper seat posts, and bikes are made to be at least 6.8kg. They can have all the bells and whistles with this weight. meanwhile i'm here waiting for the adoption of suspension seatpost on those gravel races those roadies pass.
  • 1 0
 It makes sense - I've seen MSR lost countless times on the descent. Might be too penal on long alpine ascents but I'm sure the clever engineers can figure out a way to get the machine down to the UCI limit with one.
  • 3 0
 Even in the "dropped" position, his seat in relation to his bars was still higher than my bike when the seat is up!
  • 2 0
 Dajmo Slovenija ! They are pumping out some of the world fastest cyclists right now! Top 3 are all Slovenes, two of them are 2020, 2021, tdf winners!!
  • 4 1
 Lol. so there is a road bike out there without an aero Seatpost...
  • 6 0
 I give it 2 years before the “aero-dropper” craze starts.
  • 1 0
 I think Cannondale road team used these awhile back. Dropper post were still a work in progress then. Probably why it didn’t catch on.
  • 3 0
 At least he didn’t have a reverb
  • 2 0
 someone is going to die at Milan San Remo next year trying to beast on this descent like Matej Mohoric.
  • 3 0
 The Poggio has always been known as the most dangerous, high stakes descent on the road calendar. Nobody be like “oh, if you go really fast there you can win a Monument! It all makes sense now!”
  • 2 0
 Hey, that must have been the bicycle riders that closed down Finale Ligure yesterday...
  • 2 0
 the dropper is probably the single biggest innovation of the sport since suspension forks, really a big game changer
  • 1 0
 Avoid Fox dropper posts like the plague, they are unreliable and expensive to fix. Customer support is crap.
  • 4 3
 Road Bike Racing finally makes it to the 21st Century, what’s next? disk brakes?
  • 2 1
 Mohoric uses disc brakes as well. They are pretty common now...

www.cyclingnews.com/news/mohoric-ive-destroyed-cycling-now-everyone-will-use-a-dropper-post
  • 2 0
 Yeah, why they don't use these more is beyond me! Especially XC! WTF!?
  • 2 0
 Fox transfer SL 60mm with a gripshift. what a legend!
  • 1 0
 Wow super cool! Did they even mention a dropper in the video? Did l miss it? Its a pretty big deal
  • 2 0
 Droppers are awesome, I even put one in my car
  • 2 0
 Actually I was the codriver in Baja race truck. They installed a fox dropper with handlebars on it as an adjustable hand hold.
  • 2 0
 Shout out to Ryan Palmer for the idea!
  • 2 0
 My first thought!
  • 2 0
 Maybe, just maybe... it could be that Mohoric has a bmx background
  • 1 0
 Maybe, 2/3 years we'll see road bike specific dropper, paired with di2 and axs. That would be rad
  • 1 0
 I've seen this before somewhere, i wonder where...
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 Downaero?
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 Specialized is going to come out with the world's first suspension aero seatpost next year for the gravel bike downhill speed record. They're going to use a 2015 Reverb for the suspension action at the top and wrap it in extra wings from the Shiv Disc. It will be called the S-Works Thunderbuster and will be OEM equipment on their full suspension gravel e-bike.
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flag Kenroth33 (Mar 19, 2022 at 12:05) (Below Threshold)
 @Mtmw: fuk specialized CEO is. Peice of shit
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 Great result Matej
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 Bike part used to win bike race
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 Looks like MVDP is excited about dropper posts, he is really showing that.
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 This is MVDPs face whenever he doesn’t win. He’s the epitome of Ricky Bobby. If you’re not first, you’re last.
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 Shake'n bake
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 He needs a dropper so hit can sit down with balls that big!
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 Wait, could road bikes be stealing something for mtb?
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 hey, so which dropper it was? technicals? weight? remote from bars?????
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 put 35s on that shit
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 someone is going to die at milan san remo next year
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 A few years back Michael Matthews took the skin off his knuckles on a wall on this descent. Blood spewed everywhere and he hardly flinched. People who underestimate the balls that the top road cyclists have hasn’t seen much road racing.
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 Banned tomorrow. UCI just typing up the new rules
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 I hope not. That would be a big disappointment
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 @Thirty3: Agreed - they are certainly safer than a supertuck, so would be irresponsible to ban them.
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 Officially allowed by the UCI since 2014 but OK.
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 Weird bikes, and weird costumes too.
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