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Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost review

We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £119.99 on Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost, that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost review we’re going to look at why it scores 9.2/10 in our review and why we recommend it over many of the other 188 products in the Seatposts category. We’ve started by giving you a top level score for each of the key areas when it comes to reviewing these products, these scores include a quality score, price score, review score and an overall score.






Quality

8.8

Price

9.5

Reviews

9.4

Overall

9.2

 

Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost reviews

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Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost Specification

Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost specs

Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost
Feature 1

Material: AL7075-T651

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 3

Feature 2

Bar mounted shifter style remote lever

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 3

Feature 3

Infinitely adjustable

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 1

Feature 4

Cable operated

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 3

Feature 5

Internal routing only

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 1

Feature 6

Linkage mechanism eliminates any outer cable pull

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 4

Feature 7

Zero Offset Head type

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 1

Feature 8

One Piece head/Upper Shaft

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 1

Feature 9

Micro Adjust clamping mechanism

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 1

Feature 10

Diameter: 30.9mm or 31.6mm

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 3

Feature 11

Length: 410mm

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 1

Feature 12

Travel: 120mm

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 2

Feature 13

Cable Length: 1.5m

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 7

Feature 14

Finish: Sand Blasted and Hard Anodised Black

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 3

Feature 15

Warranty: 2 Years

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 10

Feature 16

Weight: 610g W/O Cable and Shifter (31.6mm)

Other Seatposts found with this feature: 1

Spec 1

Colour: Black

Other Seatposts found with this spec: 3

Spec 2

Size: 410mm, 480mm

Other Seatposts found with this spec: 3

Spec 3

Length: 120mm, 150mm

Other Seatposts found with this spec: 1

Spec 4

Material: Alloy, Aluminium

Other Seatposts found with this spec: 3

Spec 5

Diameter: 31.6mm, 30.9mm

Other Seatposts found with this spec: 1

Price

£119.99

Number of Reviews

1096

Review Score

4.6 / 5

Average score in category: 4.2

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  • Brand-X Ascend Dropper Seatpost. Brand-X’s Ascend Dropper Seatpost can be operated remotely with ease, providing riders with the ability to tweak their saddle height for the terrain ahead. Internally routed, you can keep your hands on the cockpit whilst you dial-in your saddle height. The Ascend Dropper Seatpost has set a new benchmark for reliability and performance at an excellent price point Ergonomic Dropper Seatpost. This Brand-X Ascend Dropper Seatpost features an ergonomic remote lever that has been designed to run from where your front shifter normally sits. Ideally suited for those running a 1x chainring transmission without a front derailleur Your bike must be compatible with internally routed dropper posts for seamless compatibility with this Brand-X Ascend Dropper Seatpost. To eliminate cable movement/pull, this dropper seatpost has been cable actuated at the end of the seatpost to deliver consistent performance and ultimate reliability Features: Material:¬†AL7075-T651 Bar mounted shifter style remote lever Infinitely adjustable Cable operated Internal routing only Linkage mechanism eliminates any outer cable pull Zero Offset Head type One Piece head/Upper Shaft Micro Adjust clamping mechanism Diameter: 30 9mm or 31 6mm Length: 410mm Travel: 120mm Cable Length: 1.5m Finish: Sand Blasted and Hard Anodised Black Warranty: 2 Years Weight: 610g W/O Cable and Shifter (31 6mm)Buy Brand-X Components from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Product codes: 5056097085425
  • BRNDXDRP01412316120

No matter what type of bike product your buying, from the simple accessories through to the full setup of your custom built road bike, there are lots of important considerations that you should take into account, especially when you’re shopping online and unable to test the product first. This is especially true when you’re buying products like Seatposts.

Our aim is simple, help you get the very best products for your budget. Whether that’s Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost or an alternative, we’ll do our best to find you unbiased, genuine customer reviews to help you make your decision. We’ve found 188 different products in the Seatposts category at Chain Reaction Cycles and we’ve also managed to find 66 products from Brand-X (although only 12 of the 66 are in the Seatposts category).

Our first piece of advice is for you to spend some time really getting to know what it is you’re looking for. An important feature for one person might be totally pointless and irrelevant to you, so get a good idea of what you want and need from your Seatposts. Note down this list of key features that your product must have, that way when you’re comparing alternatives you have a starting point to decide whether one product meets your needs or not.

Price is the next and probably one of the most important factors of a purchase, so it’s really worthwhile spending a bit of time analysing the price of Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from Brand-X. Below we’re going to get into the detail of Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost to help you see how the prices stack up.

We start this price analysis by looking at the price you can expect to pay for Seatposts. There are 188 different products available at Chain Reaction Cycles, and of those 188, the average price is £90.60. There’s quite a variance in price in this category too with the lowest priced product we found at £3.46 and most expensive was £620.

The next stage we went on to, was to look at the price of products from the brand: Brand-X. The average price was £29.39 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £0.49 up to £299.99 with Brand-X products.

And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of Brand-X products that appear specifically in the Seatposts category. So you can see that the price of Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost at £119.99 is great value considering the average price of Brand-X Seatposts is £69.70 and the price varies from £10.99.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £119.99 which represents a £20.00 or 14% saving against RRP. If you think Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost ticks all of your boxes in terms of quality and features then it’s more than likely going to be a winner bearing in mind the price.

Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost Reviews

Reviews are obviously a key part of the buying process when buying any cycle gear, and that goes for Seatposts too. Reading reviews if going to be the closest insight you get into how good Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find 1096 reviews scoring it 4.6 out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by Brand-X. In fact when you consider those points and combine it with the fact that the average review score in the Seatposts category is 4.2 and the average score of products from Brand-X is 4.3 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from Brand-X in the Seatposts category the average review score is 4.3.

That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost such a high overall score of 9.2 / 10. It seems to have the perfect combination of features, quality and price making it a great all-rounder.

So our last piece of advice that we can offer is to take your time reading plenty of reviews now, you can see that there are 1096 reviews for Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost which score it 4.6, so it’s really worth spending a few minutes reading through lots of these to see what the key advantages or dislikes are. It will really reassure you when you come to buying online.

If you do go on to buy Brand-X Ascend 120mm & 150mm Dropper Seatpost or in fact any of the other Seatposts, we would love to hear from you. Sharing your views will really help us to write more comprehensive reviews and we will share these thoughts with customers just like you that are looking to read reviews before they commit to buying.