Dropper Posts, why did it take me so long to get one? The simple answer to this question is that I didn't think it would be worth the money and always found other things to buy. How wrong I was. For years friends of mine have been laughing at me for not having a dropper post on my all mountain bike and telling me how good they are. I would always just stop manually and change my post from peddling position to downhill position when I thought there would be enough of either up or down to make that move...