Overview Chat Bike Members News Women
Viewing 23 posts - 1 through 23 (of 23 total)
  • 26" wheelsets are a 'con' ?? (Bikeradar bike group review)
  • mrdestructo
    Full Member

    Bikaradar best MTB ‘under $1000’

    Cannondale Trail SL 3

    Cons: Small-diameter wheels, disappointingly narrow tires

    26″ wheelsets are now being seen as a ‘con” for $1000 MTB range bikes? When did this happen? Did I go to sleep like Rip Van Winkle and wake up in a world of flying cars, teleportation using the mind and no obesity problem?

    Posted 11 years ago
    mrmo
    Free Member

    and next year 29ers will be a con, lack of spares etc. It will all be 650b.

    To say it is a scam is a bit much, but some mags seem to exist to push the next fad that the manufacturers have created. Not so much is there a need, but how do we sell what we have.

    Posted 11 years ago
    br
    Free Member

    Its a US website.

    Posted 11 years ago
    ratherbeintobago
    Full Member

    Its a US website.

    Owned by Future Publishing and based in Bath?

    Andy

    Posted 11 years ago
    _tom_
    Free Member

    Current mtb mag trends are a load of bollocks. No problems riding 26″ and 20″ wheels here!

    Posted 11 years ago
    reevil
    Free Member

    I suspect that by “con”they mean negative point, as in “pros and cons”, not con as in scam.

    It’s a sad day though, when a 26″ wheel is considered a bad point on a bike.

    Posted 11 years ago
    z1ppy
    Full Member

    Article:

    Best mountain bikes under $1,000
    By BikeRadar US staff

    Strange how they decided to review the 26-er at all, when a 29-er SL3 is also available.

    Posted 11 years ago
    Rio
    Full Member

    As the only 26er bike on test, the Cannondale benefited from the nimblest handling feel and quickest acceleration.

    It does make you wonder what people are looking for in a bike if it’s not this.

    Posted 11 years ago
    mattjg
    Free Member

    +1 Rio

    Posted 11 years ago
    grum
    Free Member

    As the only 26er bike on test, the Cannondale benefited from the nimblest handling feel and quickest acceleration.

    That would seem to show that 26″ wheels are an advantage not a disadvantage, unless you’re racing I suppose and small advantages in overall speed are important

    Posted 11 years ago
    crankbreaker
    Full Member

    16″ is the way forward! [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqS9DE_O79g[/video]

    Posted 11 years ago
    TurnerGuy
    Free Member

    16″ is the way forward!

    no bromptons on there!

    Posted 11 years ago
    Sandwich
    Full Member

    16″ is the way forward!

    Anyone else thinking of Krusty on his clown cycle?

    Posted 11 years ago
    mamadirt
    Free Member

    No problems riding 26″ and 20″ wheels here!

    Indeed, in fact I’d really struggle to get my leg over a 29er 😆

    That NZ clip is absolute class! I’m off up the woods now on my BMX 😛

    Posted 11 years ago
    irc
    Full Member

    Is the con not the fact that manufacturers use the same size wheels on bikes for the full range of heights from below 5ft to well over 6 ft?

    Surely 26ers are better for small riders, 29ers have advantages for tall riders and average riders can use both.

    Posted 11 years ago
    Matt24k
    Free Member

    That NZ clip also reminds me of these:

    Posted 11 years ago
    kelvin
    Full Member

    Cons: Small-diameter wheels

    Bonkers!

    Posted 11 years ago
    coffeeking
    Free Member

    This is why many people are no longer buying magazines for reviews. They’re often pointlessly biased due to advertising revenue or based on an unrealistic agenda. Such a shame.

    Posted 11 years ago
    br
    Free Member

    Is the con not the fact that manufacturers use the same size wheels on bikes for the full range of heights from below 5ft to well over 6 ft?

    I think I remember Brant saying this a while back.

    Posted 11 years ago
    mrdestructo
    Full Member

    Is the con not the fact that manufacturers use the same size wheels on bikes for the full range of heights from below 5ft to well over 6 ft?

    I think I remember Brant saying this a while back.

    And there I was thinking all I had to do to fit on a small bike was change the springs to higher rate ones and stick more seatpost out of the frame 🙂

    Posted 11 years ago
    PrinceJohn
    Full Member

    Posted 11 years ago
    kelvin
    Full Member

    I still want a Hooligan. Or a Moulton.

    Posted 11 years ago
    Woody
    Free Member

    This is why many people are no longer buying magazines for reviews. They’re often pointlessly biased due to advertising revenue or based on an unrealistic agenda. Such a shame.

    I would tend to agree with a lot of that statement but I think it is probably more to do with the fact that leaps forward in technology are now few and far between, as are different routes, rides and stuff of general interest, the majority of which have been done to death.

    Posted 11 years ago
Viewing 23 posts - 1 through 23 (of 23 total)

The topic ‘26" wheelsets are a 'con' ?? (Bikeradar bike group review)’ is closed to new replies.

Overview Chat Bike Members News Women