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Agree to disagree I think. Tend to plan my bikepacking round fun descents where possible and dropping the saddle will be nice. Also on a couple of trips we've left our stuff at a bothy for an out and back. Planning on doing Ben Macdui this year and having a dropper will be useful for that!
The pic above isn't great and I think with my relatively small saddle pack I'll be fine.
Also, not having to uncable/recable the internal dropper is an extra bonus.
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Most people do disagree with me!
Maybe we are mixed up though. I love droppers. Just not big saddlebags when trying to ride proper mtb.
I just have bad memories of trying to hustle my over ladened saddle bag around the highland trail 550. It ruined the handling of the bike.I would run a small saddlebag on a dropper but only just 1kg in kt at most.
skinny
In that photo it looks lie you'll get all off 5mm drip before the bag hits the tyre.
I reckon if you're running dropper, you're doing real mtb, and having a saddle bag is not good for bike handling.