His saddle looks low 
I replayed interview and… just wow. Their team was really smart!
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Props to @Nate_Pearson — he’s been calling that droppers would appear on the world tour for years.
I agreed, but I always thought it would be a climber who couldn’t descend like a Remi Cavagna or Ilnur Zakarin … turns out it was the best descender in the peloton who broke the ice.
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Yup, @Nate_Pearson needs to take his victory lap. Who would have thought it would make its appearance in a monument winning way!
Pog is human after all. What a relief. And an impressive MvdP after riding almost only base and no race before this one. Perhaps not the worst prep for M-S.
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A legal “super tuck” now? I mean, not exactly but one can sure get low and still stay on the nose.
Wow! MSR is always unpredictable and exciting. Mohoric uses a dropper and does an insane descent. Win or crash seemed like the only two outcomes he was going to accept today.
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Wonder how many droppers we’ll see in the upcoming races. Especially if you’re on a bike like an Aethos that is easily under UCI weights so the extra weight isn’t going to be a downside, not that a couple hundred extra grammes wouldn’t be a worthwhile penalty for improved descending.
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How many teams could actually fit a dropper to their bikes. I guess most have some sort of aero post.
And I’m sure this will get banned by UCI soon.
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I also think its use is purely for aero purposes on the straights.
The point of using a dropper is not having a seat between your legs when turning or going down drops on a mtb.
On a road bike I actually think it would be tiring to use it during all the descent and honestly cannot imagine using it for cornering either.
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Anyone know why I’m seeing a bunch of blurred out words in this thread? Anyone else seeing that?
Yes, I’m seeing them. I think it’s just a “no spoilers” thing. In case ppl haven’t seen the outcome.
Lol. Really!?
Maybe people who haven’t seen it yet shouldn’t click on the “Milan San Remo” thread? Right?
That way the rest of us who slogged through the 280 kilometers before the Poggio can discuss it? 
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I don’t disagree LOL…
The Merida Reacto has an aero seatpost too.
The fact that Mohoric is pushing the seatpost so much ( first thing he mentioned in the interview, strava ride) made me think that there is something coming from Merida for the public market. This certainly is great promotion.
Yep, clicking on them unblurs them
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According to Dropper Post Used to Win One of Road Cycling’s Biggest Races - Pinkbike he used a standard Fox transfer SL (60mm drop claimed, although the new models from Fox only show to be 50 or 70, but that’s details). Plenty of models with a short drop on the market already.
You’d think he’d have had a neater lever set up lol. I guess it’s hard with the myriad hand positions and if that’s where he wanted it.
I don’t think the dropper post caused the win but it was a catalyst.
The big factor was that Pog stopped chasing him down, MVDP paused and didn’t chase, and then finally WvA did the work. That 2 second pause gave him the win.
Mohoric said that the dropper post gave him confidence on the descent. It was obviously his plan because he already had it lowered already when he attacked at the start of the descent.
Just thinking that you have the secret weapon on your bike may be enough of a mental boost give you that extra edge.
I also read that Mohoric didn’t even break his own PR on the decent nor the KOM so it’s not like the dropper was a -10 second game changer device.
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I would say “stopped chasing” is a bit of a stretch. Nobody in the pro peloton descends like Mohoric, so they couldn’t keep up/handle the speed necessary to chase him down. And a small advantage is all you need when you’re already faster than the rest on the descents.