Yeah this. Forward offset posts could be easily sold to the "is your STA steep enough?" crowd without ruining bikes for the rest of us. Other advantage of forward offset dropper posts—or saddle pushed forward in an inline post—is that your sit bones end up over the center of the seat-tube which can make for smoother operation of the dropper. On bikes with dropper posts where I've had the saddle slammed back I always feel like the saddle is acting as a bit of a lever on the dropper. On cheap posts this can cause cause the post to rock a bit. Can imagine this would only get worse on a setback dropper.
Oct. 8, 2022, 2:14 p.m. - bushtrucker
Yeah this. Forward offset posts could be easily sold to the "is your STA steep enough?" crowd without ruining bikes for the rest of us. Other advantage of forward offset dropper posts—or saddle pushed forward in an inline post—is that your sit bones end up over the center of the seat-tube which can make for smoother operation of the dropper. On bikes with dropper posts where I've had the saddle slammed back I always feel like the saddle is acting as a bit of a lever on the dropper. On cheap posts this can cause cause the post to rock a bit. Can imagine this would only get worse on a setback dropper.