PNW Drops Limited Edition Silver Dropper Posts with Loam & Rainier Models

(Photographs / PNW Parts)

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Anodized bike components are cool, little doubt. However, anodized silver or polished aluminum bike components are simply flat-out stylish! PNW Parts is aware of this (clearly) as they simply launched a restricted run of anodized silver Loam and Rainier Dropper posts – and so they’re solely $10 greater than the originals.

PNW LTD Loam & Rainier Droppers Loam from the front — (Photographs / PNW Parts)

These are some good-looking droppers, with an attention-grabbing shine. Despite the fact that this restricted run is new and glossy, make no mistake, these are the identical posts because the OG Loam and Rainier.

PNW LTD Loam & Rainier Droppers Rainier bead blasted

For the restricted Rainier 27.2, the stanchions are laborious silver ano with a little bit of sandblasting. PNW says this “provides an additional enhance of sturdiness to the bling”.

PNW LTD Loam & Rainier Droppers Loam side shot — Restricted Loam Dropper

The LTD Loam has a extra polished look with the added possibility of the customizable midcap band.

In response to PNW, the introduction of a silver dropper lever was extra sophisticated than simply altering the colour. The stanchions usually use a coating referred to as Arduous Anodizing, or Sort III Ano, which normally is simply out there in black and sometimes 2-5 x thicker than extra widespread Sort II anodizing. That meant PNW needed to work with their manufacturing unit to not solely develop a silver laborious anodized end, however a testing course of to ensure it might maintain as much as the abuse.

That want for testing led to a system they developed with a “container stuffed with mud” across the midcap and stanchion, by means of which they cycled the submit up and down “tens of hundreds of instances.” Of their testing with this technique, Sort II anodizing rapidly wore by means of whereas the brand new silver laborious ano didn’t.