Bike Yoke Dropper Post Review

Next the pair took aim at the often dubious dropper post market which as of a few years ago became both the.

Bike yoke dropper post review. The company sprung to life after a couple of engineers with mountain biking habits decided to create aftermarket frame yokes that would allow specialized owners to run alternative shocks on their bikes. The bikeyoke divine dropper is the third addition to their dropper range sitting alongside the bikeyoke revive and the xc lightweight option divine sl. Bikeyoke may not be a company that a lot of our readers will have heard of. We chose the 185mm travel version which just barely fit on our test bike.

The revive had been getting great reviews so we were eager to test it against our stacked selection of dropper seatposts. But if you re lucky enough to have a bike with a seat tube that it ll fit and need either a 125mm or 150mm travel post the duncan dropper 2 0 is a cracking performer. Nov 3 2017. Bikeyoke revive dropper post review.

The best mountain bike dropper posts. German s are often a literal bunch and bikeyoke is no exception. The revive is an exciting and innovative product from german parts manufacturer bike yoke. The revive uses a twin tube design inside the upper sliding stanchion of the post.

Targeted at gram conscious xc racers and trail riders the bikeyoke divine sl dropper post features just 80mm of travel and a totally weight optimised construction that makes it one of the lightest droppers in the world. The guys at bike yoke know that some dayyour revive post is going to suck air so it features a patented release valve near the clamp head. Customs and or parcels services in some destination countries are currently overwhelmed and they won t accept shipments from overseas. Dear non european customers please note that we are currently unable to send out parcels to certain countries due to covid 19 crisis.

Bikeyoke started out by manufacturing yokes to allow the use of a standard shock in specialized frames that came sped c with weird proprietary shock mounts. A full dropper post is a seemingly big leap from their previous products but in my experience bikeyoke stuck the landing. Words photos by rob the rake dunnet. And is 80mm of travel enough.

Read on for our long term review. The bike yoke revive is our test winner from a year ago and while it remains unchanged bike yoke has added an additional 34 9mm size and there s also a new lightweight short travel dropper in the range called the divine. Bikeyoke divine dropper post review. But just how smooth is it.