Suspended Seat Post

[amorphous]

Hi

I have just dismantled my bike for touring. I didn't realise that I had a suspended seat post until now....the type with a spring inside the tubing.
It strikes me as being rather ineffective, as I didn't even realise it was there!

Would there likely be any negative consequences of me ditching the heavy spring, and using the seatpost without it?

I'm not so much concerned about my bum, more about whether I would be significantly weakening the seat post as it would then just be a hollow tube!

 

[biggs682]

not sure try it

 

[Nebulous]

I've always been a bit wary of suspension, with my only experience being a hardtail mountain bike. It probably helped my pedalling a bit, as I tried hard to ride as smoothly as possible, so the suspension moved as little as I could get it to.

However I'm in the process of renovating my son's old subway to use as a beater bike / wet weather commuter. It is pretty heavy and it has one of those suspension seatposts. I'm quite intrigued by it and intend leaving it on to see how it goes. If I do end up changing it I think I would be inclined to change the whole seatpost, rather than remove the spring.

 

[sidevalve]

If you think about it most seat posts are hollow tubes ! Anyway if you decide to dump it I think Nebulous is right, it's best [and simplest] to just swap the whole thing.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Another vote here for swapping the seat post. While I doubt you'd actually cause any problems by removing the spring, if it was my choice I'd rather have a seatpost that was designed to be rigid.

Having ridden with a suspension seat post I'm not a fan as, in my opinion, they give an odd ride and make it fiddly to set the saddle height correctly.