SPOTTED: Electronically-Actuated RockShox Reverb Dropper Post 28

Question is, why isn't low compression on the fly style with wires. It'd sure as hell clean some Scott's up if they just use ant+ with a stepper motor..

Who's down to prototype test wireless brakes?

Brake by wire is already standard on a lot of cars.

on electric vehicles where the electric motor is there to be used as a brake. (also often with back up systems)

NOT remote controlled calipers...

I spoke with someone last weekend at Outerbike Bentonville who had been running a pre-production wireless dropper. They said they really liked the light touch to actuate the post and they found themselves using it more as a result. 40 hrs of trail time before a recharge. Sounds cool to me.

Speed.
Leverage.
Effortless.
Maintence.
Wear parts.
Internal routing.
Cockpit aesthetics.
Speed!!!!
I’ll gladly take the batteries in place of the 1908 technology on our bad mo fuggin super bikes.
And as a mechanic, I think this keeps a lot of people happy, including the “smart shops”

You know we are all thinking it... Will it vibrate?

Remind me why we need wireless derailleur/post actuation? ohh... that's right we don't #gohomeSramyourdrunk

No cables, so far less maintenance.
No sh*tty cable routing.
Less effort on the shifter.
More accuracy that remains the same during its lifetime.
...
Sorry but I can't find any downside except pricetag.

I have an older mountain bike that doesn't have stealth dropper routing (gasp!) and this would be one way to get that ungodly hose off my bike. All for it.

You only have to drill one hole to run a stealth dropper on an old bike. I bet that cable really affects the ride, throws you off balance and whatnot.

No but drilling a carbon frame is not something that I'd care to do. Much easier to just get a wireless post.

Hm. Maybe I'm lucky with my Reverb, but I haven't had a single problem with it in 9 months of riding. No bleeds, no lock outs, no hot weather problems (90 degree summer), no cold weather problems (snow rides).
At some point I might put a Wolf Tooth on it because I hate the plunger, but it isn't because it doesn't work.

I'll give you less effort on the shifter. The rest of it? meh. Internal routing. Accuracy? That remains to be seen.

You are definitely lucky then... I had a reverb for a few years and that thing was unreliable and WAY too expensive to rebuild. The last time it died I just bought a BrandX dropper for the price of a rebuild, problem solved.

You have a hose for your brake, tell me a disadvantage to the dropper cable that attaches cleanly to that hose?

Wireless things on something that's literally attached to the thing it's getting the signal from, and you have to charge a battery on a human powered vehicle. Just imagine if they could make it powered by your thumb and require no battery? Then it might go along with the whole bicycle thing.

Another vomit inducing product by the out of touch corporate MTB industry.

Judging from the ratio of up-votes to down-votes you have, I would say that it's you who is out of touch with the MTB industry and what end users are looking for.

You're hilarious. I'm impressed that there's so many Sram employees moderating the comments with up/down votes. This is only a product for Outerbike/Ebike/Yuppie types. If you have something on your mountain bike that you have to charge besides a headlight, go find a different sport.

gO fINd a DifFerEnT spoRT!! deAtH tO BaTtErieS!! eLecTriCitY is EviL!! WhY caN'T yOu DeAL wITh CAbleS??

You'll grow up someday homie.

Or maybe people that have multiple bikes and could just use one dropper amongst them all?

That bike is pretty bad ass.

Saw Mitch running er a few months back

Im calling that we will see something by the spring

If SRAM is testing rough prototypes, they should be selling retail units by late next week.

They've been on the trails in the Black Hills for a long time.

A looong time!! Can't wait to get one!