talk to them. their customer service seems great in my highly limited experience (i bro’d my post through another tarcker, but they were all about getting me sorted. i didn’t need it because my issue was just a less than smoove cable, but)
Did you try backing off on how tight the seatpost collar is tightened?
Yep, I removed it completely from the frame and it made no difference.
Email sent, even though I’m tempted to just return it.
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They got back to me this morning and a return appears to be the thing to do for this poor dropper, either through them or REI. They’re OOS for a few weeks, so REI it shall be. So, bummer about getting a defective post, but good CS on their part.
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Installed the aliexpress vbrake travel agents, pretty straight forward, never used the problem solvers versions so not sure if these are jank by comparison, also didn’t finish setting the bike up so can’t say for sure how well they actually work. But they installed easy enough.
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This turned into a bigger chore. The OEM rim tape was failing on these ARC 30s, so that had to go. It was kinda weird, since they only wrapped the center and not the bead shelf. It worked for 5 years, though. I only have 25 mm tape, YOLO.
Holy shirtballs, the DD tire did not want to seat. After hitting it with 100 psi about 10 times, I finally got the beads to snap on. But the air is leaking out of the rim drain hole. I’m going to let the sealant cure overnight and see if that’ll plug up the valve hole. Otherwise, I’ll get some 30 mm and retry. It should reseat faster after the tire stretches.
I also put the fenders back on the road bike, but not before I unwrapped my Di2 wiring to figure out why the pusher wasn’t pushing. As a last resort, I plugged in the charger to see if it was my battery. Yes, the battery didn’t have enough juice to push the gorilla. 
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Repacked grease on shimano hub, though I was really trying to get into the freehub bearings and couldn’t. Did replaced 2.8" DHRII with 2.6" spec dh tire, and removed the cushcore on e-bike. I thought it was going to be a plus cush core, but I think it was just regular 27.5 pro.
Do need to replace the chain since it is pretty stretched in a year.
Replaced pads on wife’s ebike and massaged the pistons. Couldn’t find my chainwhip to try and see what seal on the raceface hub was fucking up and dragging like mad. Seems to be a known issue with them since they sent us a few wheelsets for warranty at the shop.
Paring down to save space - physical and mental. Prepped another load of stuff for sale, and tossed a bunch out stuff out of the ‘junk drawer’.
Made some long term decisions - I’m officially over having multiple wheelsets for bikes. It creates too much overlap and overhead, clutters my storage, and gets expensive when parts wear out. 4-5 different bikes is enough.
Pulled out the Ice Cream Truck, and prepping for winter - decided not to stress about only riding it a few times a year, or using it for some eventual epic winter bikepacking thing. Just goofing off occasionally is enough. Got a bottle cage that can hold a big thermos for something hot to make the cold rides more fun.
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Put a drivetrain, brakes, and front rack/basket on the winter bike over the weekend. The 26" wheels aren’t built yet, but 650b x 47 Boken Plus tires fit just fine so it’s an actual working bicycle in the meanwhile, just with a slightly higher BB. The VO 650b x 58 fenders from the bin also fit, barely, and it looks like they’ll mount up with just a trimming of the rear stays and a different bracket at the seatstay bridge. So instead of switching between bikes depending on the weather this winter I might just be switching between wheels/tires on one bike.
Commutered to the office on it today and it’s a competent bicycle and that’s all I wanted out of it.
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Flipped the hybrid’s stem and shuffled spacers around to get the bars lower and add a little reach. Deffo rides better.
Replacement popper showed up for the Jones. Tested it first, then installed it. Works great.
lolling at the box REI shipped it in. There was so little paper packing in it that they shouldn’t have even bothered with that.
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That is a very REI shipping job, IME
I love those Scarpa approach shoes in the background.
That totally did not break where I would have suspected. Maybe cracked already from being over torqued?
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It’s a Thomson!
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A torque wrench wasn’t mentioned. I suspect over tightening was involved
I’m kinda guilty of this. My Poseidon has 43f/38r
scarpa crux is a great flat pedal shoe imo
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Yeah, ‘it’s Thomson’ only matters if the faceplate cracks
(looks at my Thomson stem, not nervous at all, nope)