Vecnum NIVO 212 TRAVELFIT dropper seatpost review
Long travel dropper with neat adjustment
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With 212mm of drop, Vecnum’s NIVO 212 TRAVELFIT dropper is one of the longest-travel seatposts you can buy.
The NIVO is also available in three other dropper lengths (122mm, 152mm and 182mm) and three diameters (30.9mm, 31.6mm, 34.9 mm).
If you’ve got long legs, or a lengthy bike that encourages a central riding position, that 212mm drop is a big plus. It gave me (at 190cm / 6ft 3in tall) a greater range of motion when pumping big rollers or sucking up kicky features.
Being able to lower the saddle so far out of the way was also reassuring when tackling muddy ruts or pinball rocks.
The post measures 570mm at full extension (from saddle rails to cable port). If that’s too long to fit in your frame at your pedalling height, you can shorten the travel (and overall length) in 4mm steps using the brand’s TRAVELFIT system, to find the perfect fit.
The 254mm stack height (from rails to collar) is short considering the travel. At 530g for the post and remote, it’s ridiculously light too.
I used Vecnum’s shim (€18.52) to fit the 30.9mm-only post in a 31.6mm frame, along with its two-bolt seat clamp (€28.27). Even with friction paste, once the clamp was tight enough to stop the post turning in the frame, it would stop just short of full extension.
Upping the air pressure from 200psi (the amount it came set with, which is Vecnum’s minimum recommended pressure) to 300psi (the maximum) solved this.
That aside, it’s worked flawlessly for six months. The remote is comfy to use, there’s no play, sticking or sag, and no signs of wear so far.
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Product Specifications
Product
| Price | br_price, 5, 3, Price, EUR €428.00 |
| Weight | br_weight, 5, 6, Weight, 530g – For post and remote, Array, g |
| Brand | br_brand, 5, 10, Brand, Vecnum |
Features
| Features | br_Features, 11, 0, Features, Finishing: Black anodized / guiding hard coated Cable type: Standard shifting cable Gas spring: Pressure range 200-300PSI, refillable with standard shock pump Maximum rider weight: 120kg |
| Length | br_length, 11, 0, Length, 570mm |
| Material | br_material, 11, 0, Material, Aluminium |
| Seatpost diameter | br_seatpostDiameter, 11, 0, Seatpost diameter, 30.9mm |
| Travel | br_travel, 11, 0, Travel, 212mm, Array, mm |
Authors
Seb Stott is a former technical writer for BikeRadar. Seb's been riding mountain bikes for more than half his life, ever since getting hooked on a tiny 24Seven Crosser aged 13. He's raced downhill, enduro and cross-country, and while no athlete, still enters the occasional race. Seb studied experimental physics at university, and he's now happily using his degree experimenting with and testing different mountain bike setups, trying to work out what works best and why. You'll often find him riding the same track ten times in a day, changing just one thing to pin down the differences. Seb has also been a regular contributor to the BikeRadar Podcast and BikeRadar YouTube channel, and written for MBUK magazine and Pinkbike.com.
