IN BRIEF
Intend is putting the Elevator on sale, a dropper post paired with a bar-mounted remote called the Elevator Boy. The post runs on an air spring, weighs 564 grams without its remote and offers 190 mm of travel, adjustable in ten-millimetre steps down to 100 mm according to the official spec sheet — ten settings from a single part number. The German manufacturer says the post is designed and assembled by hand in Freiburg im Breisgau, one at a time. The brand’s own shop lists €318.49, or €379 including German VAT according to Bikerumor; the remote is quoted at €79.
| Price | €318.49 on the brand’s shop, or €379 including 19% VAT according to Bikerumor |
| Remote price | €79 including VAT (Elevator Boy) |
| Weight | 564 g without the remote; 27 g for the remote |
| Diameter | 31.6 mm |
| Travel | 190 mm, adjustable in 10 mm increments down to 100 mm |
| Spring | Air, adjustable pressure |
| Rider weight | 50 to 110 kg |
| Manufacturing | Designed, developed and tested in Freiburg im Breisgau; assembled by hand |
Intend made its name on inverted forks machined one at a time and priced like goldsmith’s work. The Freiburg im Breisgau brand moves a rung down its range with the Elevator, a dropper post put on sale in mid-August together with its bar-mounted remote.
The Intend Elevator dropper post adjusts from 100 to 190 mm
A single part number covers ten travel lengths. The Elevator ships with 190 mm of drop, stepped down ten millimetres at a time — 180, 170, 160, and so on down to 100 mm. Travel is chosen when ordering, from those ten values: the shop’s form has the buyer select it just as they select rider weight, and the official spec sheet lists “Air Spring pressure” as the only adjustment left on the post once delivered.
The post rides on an air spring, which the brand inflates at the factory to the rider’s weight, given when ordering between 50 and 110 kilos. On its spec sheet Intend describes a “Safe Space Technology”, which it defines as “a sealed air volume at the base of the post”, meant to cushion the end of the stroke. The cartridge is said to be entirely sealed, with internal double bushings, and the brand claims the post bleeds itself in use.
564 grams, and assembly claimed to be done by hand
On the scales, the official spec sheet claims 564 grams without the remote, for a single 31.6 mm diameter. The spec sheet puts the emphasis elsewhere: on the finish, with a natural-anodised monocoque shaft, and above all on the production method. The brand writes that it assembles its posts “entirely in-house and by hand — one at a time”, in Freiburg im Breisgau, where the product was “designed, developed and tested”. German magazine BIKE, for its part, states that Intend developed the Elevator with a Taiwanese partner, with assembly remaining in Freiburg.
A remote sold separately, compatible with other posts
The Elevator Boy, the bar-mounted remote, is billed separately at €79 including VAT according to Bikerumor, for a claimed 27 grams. Intend states, Bikerumor reports, that it is “universally compatible and will work with any other cable-actuated post” on the market: it can therefore be fitted to another brand’s post, which makes it a product that can be sold on its own.
That leaves the question of price. Intend’s shop lists €318.49, a figure its own sales page flags as excluding VAT; Bikerumor gives €379, including 19% German VAT. Either way, the Elevator sits above mass-market dropper posts, but well below the prices Intend has accustomed its customers to on its forks.
