--- title: Building A Bicycle Dropper Seat Post | daily.dev description: A maker known as [kane components] built a homemade bicycle dropper seat post from scratch, drawing inspiration from woodworking bar clamps. The design uses... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-bicycle-dropper-seat-post-6hz4d6elc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building A Bicycle Dropper Seat Post | daily.dev og:description: A maker known as [kane components] built a homemade bicycle dropper seat post from scratch, drawing inspiration from woodworking bar clamps. The design uses... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-bicycle-dropper-seat-post-6hz4d6elc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6hz4d6eLC.png og:image:alt: Building A Bicycle Dropper Seat Post og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building A Bicycle Dropper Seat Post **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A maker known as [kane components] built a homemade bicycle dropper seat post from scratch, drawing inspiration from woodworking bar clamps. The design uses angled binding plates on a rail, a cable-actuated cam to release them, and an air spring for return. Reusing parts from a broken commercial post, the mechanism was thread-milled into a replaceable cartridge. Despite creative engineering, the build ultimately failed to work consistently — the binding mechanism couldn't reliably hold the post under a rider's weight — but the journey documents useful lessons in mechanical design, machining, and iterative problem-solving. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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