I haven't tried it to be sure, but I'm fairly certain that if my hips are behind my saddle, my butt would hit my 29er tire before my torso would touch the saddle. The saddle bucking me forward by hitting my torso, because it was not lowered, would really surprize me if it happened, and I'm kind of a "strudy" type of gal, not a thin thing with long legs.

On a 26er, I would bet that might be different since the distance between the top of the wheel and the top of the saddle is greater on a 26er.

Sounds like a dropper seat post would be a nice treat for your riding style, Irulan.

I can also tell you that the dropper seat post works WONDERS on cornering. Drop the seat coming into the corner, lean the bike as far as needed (becuase the saddle doesn't hit my thigh anymore, in fact, many times my whole body is on the outside of the bike), straighten out and pop it back up to pedal onward.

It just takes a little practice to get the muscle memory down. Where you normally pop out of the saddle to stand, you simply put the saddle down first, THEN pop up. One extra little movement to learn. With repitition, it becomes second nature.

I do sometimes find it hard to drop the seat AND brake hard at the same time. It's a pretty tough reach for my small hands to brake while also getting my thumb over to the dropper button and compressing it.