which dropper for giant faith 2010 shape

[ned_stp]

im wanting to order a dropper for my 2010 giant faith but due to the frame/seat post shape, the frame can only take 160mm of seatpost (according to my brother as im away at work). this seems really small to me and the shortest LEV is still 335mm...which means that i would have 170mm of stem poking out before the travel kicked in.

is my faith destined to be dropper-less or is there a shorter option out there?

 

[wombat]

The short lev is 355 isn't it? So you'd have 195 protruding. But from the dimensions I found, the max insertion on a lev is 176, so you wouldn't be far from running it all the way in anyway.

If you need to run less than 170mm of post at full height on a bike like the reign, it sounds like your frame is a little small.

 

[MARKL]

... the shortest LEV is still 335mm...which means that i would have 170mm of stem poking out before the travel kicked in...

Ummm, I may be misunderstanding you but the 335mm is the overall length - the travel shortens the post not lengthens. So 335 minus 160 minus 100 means at drop you would have only 75mm of seat post sticking out.