Don't.
It does not work as the suspension seatpost. It works as the dropper post properly.
We have studied the dropper mentioned together with my brothers. Whatever we did, it did not work as the suspension post properly. The reason was the suspension here works along the post axis but you ride in different positions of your behind. If you ascend, chances are you're sitting on the saddle beak. On long ride, you sit on the rear part of the saddle. In no position but one the dropper works properly as a suspension. It is either vigorously bobbing under you when you don't need it, or remains stiff when you just happened to ride over an obstacle. Even the youngest brother Piotr didn't want that seat-post on his HT bike!
Secondly, an e-bike deserves the internal cable routing, as it is hard to fasten the cable to the hydroformed & thick frame tube properly. Internal routing means a hard work for the LBS and is doable or not.
I'm so glad with the OneUp dropper seatpost (that replaced Giant Switch)! When starting an ascent (with the bike already up the ascent), I drop the seat to be able to stand on the pedals without the obstacle. When descending, I drop the seat to take the proper position with the bum over the rear wheel, and either I ride standing on the pedals or sit at the rear edge of the saddle. Good thing, the dropper post.
Thanks for the input Stefan, Jacek & Piotr.
I love the Kinect seat post but wanted to be able drop the seat for stops, mounting and dismounting. I tried a regular dropper post at my lbs and first thought wow it’s great. Maybe I don’t need the Kinect.
Then to test things further I switched the Vado’s seat post back to the original seat post. OUCH!! What was I thinking! Every little bump hurt like heck. Put the Kinect back on the bike and all was right with the world. So I’m sticking with the Kinect on the Vado and who knows, maybe a full suspension emtb with dropper post is in the future.
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