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KS Southpaw dropper post
remote £30
Most dropper post remotes are
designed to be squeezed next to front
shifters. That means they tend to be
small and not very ergonomic. But what
if you don’t run a left-hand shifter?
That’s where the Southpaw comes in.
Designed for 1x fans, it replaces the
usual vertical lever supplied with
cable-operated posts with a shifterstyle horizontal paddle.
It’s straightforward to fit and offers
several millimetres of side-to-side
adjustment (by sliding the ‘barrel’ of the
paddle through the bar clamp), making
it simple to get it positioned exactly
where you want under the bar. The lever
works exactly as you’d hope, requiring no
stretching or contorting of your thumb,
or shifting of your hand on the grip. And
it’s not just KS posts that it’s compatible
with – it worked just fine with a Thomson
Elite Dropper we tried it with too.
Our only niggle is that it’s difficult to
get the smooth-surfaced clamp tight on
carbon bars, but that’s nothing a smear
of assembly paste can’t solve. JCW
www.jungleproducts.co.uk
Dirty TR Racing saddle
£109.99
Shock-absorbing D3O padding has
become a popular material for body
armour, and now Dirty (a sub-brand of
San Marco) have added it to a saddle.
It gives the TR Racing a well-damped,
comfy but not bouncy feel over sudden
bumps – like a stress ball rather than a
tennis ball. The broad nose makes the
seat relatively comfy on steep pitches
too, but the pressure-relief channel
could be wider, as it only works when sat
precisely slap bang in the middle of the
saddle. Despite the ‘racing’ in the title, it’s
no featherweight at 282g on our scales.
It’s not light on the wallet either. Seb
www.zyro.co.uk