This new BikeYoke Revive 3 is a 3rd era of the dropper seatpost that I measure all different droppers towards. The adjustments are small and incremental. However the decrease stack improve signifies that you may be capable of match a bit extra dropper journey in your bike, and you’ll even improve your present Revive.
Plus, there’s a brilliant restricted version in silver if you wish to trick out your mountain bike, whereas provides final…
BikeYoke Revive 3.0 mountain bike dropper seatpost
Whereas different posts promise to be the lightest, the only, or the most affordable, the BikeYoke Revive merely guarantees to work. No squishy IFP, no sticky mechanical friction, no hard-to-service internals. The Revive was constructed to final, to be extra serviceable, and finally extra sustainable.
And the Revive 3 is not any totally different.
In truth, the internals (and far of the exterior bits) are precisely the identical. It’s simply tweaks on the surface that make it higher. And your outdated submit can completely get upgraded, too.
What’s new?
The obvious replace is the BikeYoke Revive v3’s new saddle rail cradle. By dropping the rails throughout the identical seatpost head design, you’ll be able to match an additional 5 millimeters of journey in the identical general stack. Perhaps that may allow you to transfer as much as an extended journey dropper over what you presently have in your body.
The opposite massive extra compact replace is a revision to the 360° rotatable actuator design on the backside of the dropper, lowering general size by 10mm so that you don’t want fairly as a lot room inside your body both. BikeYoke describes the Revive 3 actuator linkage as improved, making it smoother with optimistic suggestions on the distant. The up to date linkage additionally works with a brand new slide-on barrel so that you don’t must mess with a barrel set screw anymore.
On the identical time, BikeYoke has moved to a brand new skinny 3mm housing to route your mechanical dropper distant, with a 0.9mm shift wire inside. That smaller diameter housing is simpler to navigate round tight bends, whereas nonetheless a lot stiff to handle clean dropper actuation. Housing, wire, ferrules & cable finish are included along with your dropper.
Tech particulars
The core of the Revive 3.0 dropper submit tech is similar confirmed & patented Revive user-bleed hydraulic internals that permits you to take away any air that sneaks previous the seals for clean motion, longer.
The brand new BikeYoke Revive 3.0 is available in 3 diameters (30.9, 31.6 & 34.9) with the 2 smaller sharing a 25mm higher slider. And the 34.9mm dropper will get its personal bigger 28mm higher tube. It is available in 4 journey lengths (125, 160, 185 & 213mm) and can be journey adjustable. You may internally scale back journey in 5mm increments with plastic clips you’ll be able to snap onto the submit shaft when you absolutely take it aside.
The pinnacle is a traditional 2-bolt design, constructed to suit spherical 7mm and oval 7x9mm saddle rails. BikeYoke says general stack peak is now simply 37mm. Claimed weights vary from 460g for a 30.9 x 125mm journey submit as much as 690g for a 34.9 x 213mm submit.
My 31.6mm x 213mm submit has a claimed weight of 650g, however weighed an actual 641g on my scale together with its barrel.
Revive 3.0: Setup & Evaluation
What number of MTB dropper posts have you ever been utilizing recurrently for greater than 5 years, and are nonetheless going sturdy? I can perhaps solely consider a BikeYoke Revive. Ever since the primary one in 2016, the easy Revive operate – flip the lever, push the submit down, air bubbles be gone – means these posts simply preserve working, season after season. The BikeYoke Revive simply works.
I like that I can modify the inner air strain (after eradicating the saddle cradle) to my best quick return with a pleasant top-out thunk. The lowered stack peak is good. And the brand new actuator linkage was straightforward to arrange.
It was simpler to route the brand new 3mm housing inside my body for the brand new Revive 3. However, since I put it right into a metal body that requires the cable to exit & reenter on the backside bracket, it isn’t as excellent a seal since my cable port plugs had been designed for 4mm housing. That’s much less a problem for probably the most trendy bikes. (And you may all the time use customary shift housing). However even bikes with absolutely guided routing tubes may expertise some rattle with this narrower new housing.
Driving with the brand new Revive 3.0
I put this 380€ 31.6 x 213mm submit onto a motorcycle that has seen a number of totally different posts that I’ve tried out. My different Revives have all ended up on different bikes the place the unique submit began misbehaving for one motive or the opposite – bouncing air in an IFP, points with air in hydraulic distant traces, a wi-fi dropper with some hard-to-diagnose bug, a submit that stopped dropping in -10°C climate for some motive. The record of dropper failure modes is seemingly limitless.
Anyway, the Revive simply works.
I put in it within the bike, push the button and it goes up and down easily with none extra thought. You actually shouldn’t want to consider a dropper. It ought to simply disappear beneath you. I count on that similar to each different Revive that I’ve ridden (with the identical internals), this one will preserve doing so, with solely easy upkeep.
Plus, spare elements are low-cost – 20€ rebuild kits. And common service is straightforward (so long as you’ve got a set of circlip pliers) – whether or not you do it your self or drop it off at your pleasant neighborhood bicycle restore store. So, I’ve a sense the Revive 3.0 goes to remain placed on this Jeronimo Txabardo for fairly some time.
As an apart, taking regular experience images doesn’t actually work to indicate droppers (should you don’t cease and listen). They all the time appear to be hidden from view. Out of the best way, one may say.
Evaluation of the up to date Triggy Alpha, too!
And the brand new Triggy Alpha Lengthy distant can be actually good.
In truth, that new distant that spins on a giant bearing additionally has a brand new trick little element. A little bit pocket machined into the lever catches and holds the top cap that I clamped over the shift wire, so it doesn’t catch your finger irrespective of the place your hand goes. It’s an extremely tiny little element, however clear proof of BikeYoke designer and “Overlord of Operations” Stefan Sack’s meticulous consideration to element. I find it irresistible.
I additionally recognize how adjustable it’s. Paired with the I-Spec EV Adapter that matches my Shimano brakes, my cockpit is good and clear. And I get the precise place I would like with the distant earlier than it touches my left thumb. That introduced my distant setup price to 80.90€, together with an additional shift wire.
BikeYoke Revive 3.0 & Revive Max 3.0 – Pricing, choices & availability
The brand new BikeYoke Revive 3 dropper submit is out there now beginning at 350€ in 30.9 & 31.6mm diameters. Or for 370€ within the Max 34.9mm diameter. For that value you’ll be able to decide both 125mm or 160mm of journey. Stretching out to 185mm provides an additional 30€ or to 213mm for 50€ over the bottom value, relying on diameter. BikeYoke additionally hinted {that a} submit even longer than 213mm is within the works!
BikeYoke presents loads of distant choices too. Their customary direct matchmaker mount Triggy begins at 45€, whereas the brand new Triggy Alpha that I’m utilizing is 65€ in both quick or lengthy lever variants. Separate clamps and I-Spec adapter mounts are additionally accessible for 6-20€.
BikeYoke is all about constructing parts that final. Additionally they proceed their improve service program with the Revive 3.0. So, now when it’s time for the annual service of your present Revive dropper, should you ship it to a licensed service heart, once you pay for the “common full service”, they may improve your earlier iteration Revive to the total model 3.0 options for NO further price. Wow!
Learn extra concerning the BikeYoke full Replace Service Program, right here.
Revive 3.0 in Restricted Version Silver, too!
Final summer season BikeYoke confirmed us an electronically-actuated prototype Revive dropper with a sliver decrease tube. (And sure, that digital dropper is transferring forward at “full velocity” to an eventual launch). And apparently, everyone liked it. I really feel like we now have an excessive amount of absolutely blacked-out equipment on our bikes as of late, proper?
So, BikeYoke determined to make a restricted version batch of the brand new Revive 3 in silver, too. (Btw, we’re advised the slider can solely actually ever be black or gold attributable to BikeYoke’s laborious anodization course of.) Simply 250 complete Revive 3 droppers can be made with a sliver decrease tube. The don’t even price any further! And they’re accessible now in all sizes and shapes, by “chosen distributors and sellers and from BikeYoke’s webshop” whereas they final.
