Tested

SRAM REVERB AXS DROPPER POST

£700

SPECIFICATION Weight: 673g post (150mm, 31.6mm) 62g remote • Drop: 100, 125, 150, 170mm • Diameter: 30.9mm, 31.6mm, 34.9mm • Contact: zyrofisher.com

If you’ve not tried SRAM’s AXS suite of wireless components, it really is quite astonishing. Yes, we have become blasé to the incredible pace of technology and just what is available now at our fingertips, but the fact that SRAM has gone and replaced steel wires and hydraulic fluid with an encrypted wireless connection that changes your gears and moves your dropper post faster than it takes to blink an eye is seriously impressive.

While we’ve been running AXS drivetrains on several bikes for a while now – without fault – the component I’m going to look at here is the Reverb dropper post. Like its hydraulic relation, it’s available in most common seatpost diameters and a variety of drops from 100mm to 170mm, so you shouldn’t have a problem finding one to suit you.

Externally it’s slightly different to a regular Reverb. For one thing, the head uses a side clamp arrangement, rather one that grips the rails from above and below. This is to allow room for the electronics and battery, which clips into the back of the post just beneath the saddle. Side clamps have a bad habit of rotating under hard landings, but RockShox has added a T25 angle adjust bolt that makes it easier to dial-in your seat position as well as stopping the seat from turning.

Internally it gets the revisions introduced to the hydraulic Reverb last year, including reduced friction and a Vent Valve to purge any trapped air and get rid of the dreaded Reverb bounce. Equally good news is that service intervals have increased from 200 to 600 hours.