Originally Posted by
jp911
No doubt that a dropper would make life so much nicer on steep descents. The single track downhill stage of Grinduro was bad enough that I just stopped and use my multi-tool to drop my seat as low as it would go.
I have recently done that too, just as an experiment, to see how my gravel rig feels with the seat lowered. As expected, it made one of my regular rather scary descents less scary.
I'm back-burnering this idea for now though, since I can't afford to do a good remote dropper, and the more I think about the ones I was considering with the lever under the seat, it just seems like it wouldn't be a complete enough solution. I think of dropping my saddle when things start getting steep and bumpy and to take a hand off the bars at that moment I'd have to slow way down or even stop, so I might as well just put a QR collar on for now and play around with that.