Originally Posted by
Russ Roth
You're correct then, I don't understand the reasoning which is why I prefer not to be positive or negative about them. They seem to have some positivity but I've no experience with them. When my wife was buying her dual suspension 2 years ago some bikes had them and some didn't but none of the sales people could explain why.
It is a price point thing. A reliable dropper is a hard thing to include on a cheaper bike. How a bike shop person did not know this is beyond me.
But pretty much any decent mtb these days will have made provisions for one to be added, such as a port to run an internal cable, and a seat tube that will allow the extra needed insertion length.