Operationdropping the saddle in when descending or tackling rocky or rooty terrin gives you a more controlled and balanced ride being able to raise the saddle back quickly lets you keep riding without stopping to adjust the elite dropper seatpost is designed not to extend when the saddle is used to hang the bike on a lift chair 5mm of setback is built in to the seatpost cradle allowing a little more cockpit room constructionthe thomson cartridge based system is designed to have the longest s