A dropper submit with a rider on high of it received Milan-San Remo this previous weekend and now the Freds are in a froth:

“The staff arrange a motorcycle for me. We had this plan for an extended, very long time now,” Mohorič mentioned. “I used to be pondering at first it’s possibly not going to make an enormous distinction on the descent, however then I attempted it within the coaching and the primary time I attempted it, I used to be amazed at how a lot safer [it is]. Should you go usually, it offers you far more management of the bike, and for those who go full fuel, after all you may go a bit bit sooner. It’s simpler to keep away from errors, or appropriate them once they occur.”

Clearly this can be a large coup for makers of dropper posts, since it will formally give them entry to the roadie market; mainly, for a corporation like Fox, it’s like they’re Exxon and the federal authorities simply opened up each single nationwide park to limitless oil drilling.

Extra importantly although, this can be a boon to anybody who enjoys the pastime of Fredwatching, as a result of watching everybody within the paceline decrease their saddles for the quick descent earlier than the espresso store in Piermont ought to be positively lovely, like a row of little ducklings:

Even the Retrogrouches will little question get in on it, and I’m clearly going to suit every of my Rivendae with one in all these:

Despite the fact that I already had one and by no means used it:

Talking of mechanical tasks, I’ve bought a misguided one on the offing, and in researching it I inadvertently got here throughout this:

And no, my misguided undertaking under no circumstances entails including a further wheel to my bike, or certainly something even tangentially associated to this contraption.

Anyway, the thought of individuals driving these items on singletrack ought to be sufficient to present your native trailbuilder nightmares, as a result of if factor takes off it’ll be like your native path system simply gave beginning to quintuplets:

That mentioned, I like the ingenuity, and little question somebody on the market someplace has a burning need to scale a near-vertical mountain face on a motorcycle/trike–and to retailer it in a cabinet once they’re finished:

Good factor it has a dropper submit.