The current trend with mountain bikes is that consumers are beginning to see having the ability to run droppers in the 185-200mm range as the baseline and a required feature, not an extreme. Seat tubes are getting shorter and top tubes are getting more sloped to make this possible. Another side to it or way of thinking about it is that everyone wants to buy and sell aftermarket droppers now, but people have proved largely incapable of doing the math to figure out how much travel they can run for their saddle height before buying, which incentivizes companies to just push it to the max up front in their frame designs.

The current trend with mountain bikes is that consumers are beginning to see having the ability to run droppers in the 175-185mm range as the baseline and a required feature, not an extreme. Seat tubes are getting shorter and top tubes are getting more sloped to make this possible. Another side to it or way of thinking about it is that everyone wants to buy and sell aftermarket droppers now, but people have proved largely incapable of doing the math to figure out how much travel they can run for their saddle height before buying, which incentivizes companies to just push it to the max up front in their frame designs.