X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost Reviews

Review score: 9.6/10 – Updated November, 2024

Latest Price: £187 – Save 15% (RRP: £220)

Take a look now to discover what makes X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost worthy of a review score of 9.6 out of 10.

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• Features
• Quality
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• Reviews
• Brand – X Fusion
• Videos
• Summary
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X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost features

Quality

Quality is without doubt one of the most important factors that we consider when buying bikes, parts, accessories or clothing. As you’d imagine it’s especially important when buying Seatposts. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost.

The first thing is material. Looking at what X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost is made of will give you a really good idea of the quality overall. Take a look at the specs above and you should be able to see the material. It’s then up to you to decide if it meets your expectation.

Similarly you’ll also want to spend some time looking at the features too. Again the table above, listing the features will give you a really good overview. However you should think about the sort of features that you’d expect when buying new Seatposts. It’s worth writing a list of the “must-have” features so that you don’t end up compromising and missing some important features, or alternatively end up buying an unnecessarily high specced product.

There’s also a lot of merit in checking out the brand of the product and looking at the various brands that are selling Seatposts. Brands like X Fusion are of courses extremely well respected in the cycling community so you know you’re getting a fantastic product with them. But if you’re undecided on your product you should write up a list of brands that you’d be happy to buy. It’s a great way of filtering and narrowing down the number of products when you’re searching.

Next up you’ll want to think about the price and use that as a guide to set your expectations of the quality. If you’re buying the cheapest of the options in the Seatposts category you should probably expect it to not be of as good quality as the most expensive. It sounds obvious of course. But this is where you can get a bit clever and use your combination of features, specs, materials and other factors to work together to get a really good quality product at the best price. We often draw up a list of “must-haves” and use these as filters when shopping online so that you’re only seeing products that meet your criteria. You can then sort by Price>Low to get the best deals.

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Comparing Prices

Price, as you would imagine, is the most popular reason for someone buying one product over another. It is the single most important factor in choosing the majority of products we buy. The same goes for Seatposts.

It’s at this stage of the buying process, when you’re looking at different options, that you should set a budget. Do some research to understand how much roughly you can expect to pay for the sort of level of product that you’re looking for. Then match that to your own personal circumstance and how much you can afford to spend. This will really help you in narrowing down the right product for you.

Price of X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost

So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost.

We run regular scans across the web to find the best prices for the products that we review, from a range of cycling retailers. The best price we managed to find X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £187 in our latest search.

Based on this price we’ve scored it 9.4 out of 10 for price.

Average price of Seatposts

Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Seatposts.

We found 161 in the Seatposts category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £94.73, making it above average at £187.

It’s sometimes helpful to look at how much the prices can vary. Especially when setting yourself a budget, or when trying to understand just how much you could spend on Seatposts. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £650.00, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £2.99.

With 161 products available we worked out that 20 cost more than X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost and 140 were cheaper.

Cost of X Fusion products

At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 6 products from X Fusion, of which 2 were in the Seatposts category.

For now though we’re looking at X Fusion branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £469.50 making this product below average.

You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest X Fusion product we found was £179.99 and the highest price we could find from them was £800.00.

Of the 6 from X Fusion, 4 were more expensive than X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost and 1 were cheaper.

How much are X Fusion Seatposts?

We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at X Fusion products that are listed in the Seatposts category.

The average price of the 2 products that match this search was £183.50, with the cheapest coming in at £179.99 and highest price was £187.00. With the average being £183.50, X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost comes in above average.

0 products that meet this search were more expensive than X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost and 1 were cheaper.

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X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost Reviews

Reading reviews is an amazing way of getting a good feel for a product without actually being able to try it or see it first.

There are two different types of reviews, and we also recommend reading both.

1. Expert reviews – In the cycle industry there are loads of really reliable trusted resources for expert reviews. For example if you’re looking to buy a new bike, BikeRadar Bike Reviews are great.

2. Customer reviews – these are probably your best resource for information. There’s no finances or influence involved, they’re purely just honest reviews from customers that have bought and used the product. The reason we love customer reviews so much is because no matter if their view is good or bad, there’s a very good chance that it will be honest and unbiased.

Our best advice is to head over to Chain Reaction Cycles and read the X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost reviews there.

Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 9.6 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Seatposts category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.3 out of 5.

Owner reviews, as we say, are one of the most important pieces of research that we can do before we buy. So, with that in mind, if you do go on to buy X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost or another similar product, like Brand-X Ascend XL Dropper Seatpost reviews or Brand-X Ascend CX Dropper Seatpost reviews we’d love you to leave a review in the comments below. It will really help future buyers just like you, when they’re looking to buy Seatposts.

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Brand

As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Seatposts. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with X Fusion, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.

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YouTube Video of X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost

Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost reviews.

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Summary

Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost. We’d say that as long as it fits your budget and meets your expectations in terms of features/spec…it’s a really strong contender. That’s why we’ve scored it a massive 9.6/10 overall.

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Further product details

• Product ID 1: 25718985003
• Product ID 2: 598454UK
• Brand: X Fusion
• Model number: XF-22-SSSMANIC-150-804
• RRP: £220
• EAN: 816022019957
• Description: X Fusion Manic Dropper SeatpostThe X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost comes equipped with internal cable routing and a double ‘Key Way’ internal design to stop lateral movement, creating an exceptionally reliable and efficient dropper post that adds performance and style to any Trail bike.The consistency that this dropper post offers makes it a bike component to seriously consider when riding trails with changing gradients and unpredictable surface obstacles. This post can be relied upon to accurately raise and drop your saddle to the required heights at the push of a comfortable remote that will make sudden descents, drops and even brisk climbs more manageable.Features:Material: AlloyTravel: 125mmLength: 421mmInsertion Depth: 285mmUse: All Mountain, XC, EnduroWeight: 610gBuy X Fusion Components from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
• Full Category: Components > Seatposts
• Savings percentage from RRP: 15%
• Size: 437.5mm Length
• Unisex
• 33
• Adult

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Other options for Seatposts

As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Seatposts. 161 in fact.

A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching X Fusion Manic Dropper Seatpost included,
Brand-X Ascend II Dropper Seatpost reviews, RockShox Reverb Lever 1x Upgrade Kit reviews, or we really liked the look of DVO Suspension Garnet Dropper Seatpost reviews as another alternative.