So I’m joining this thread a little late but was interested to know if anyone’s tried out some 650Bs on their TRc yet? Seems to be plenty of room to do this with the Santa Cruz’s, especially the TRc for some reason
650b/27.5″ Mountain Bike Round Up
I rode the TRc for an extended weekend, primarily as I was interested to see the contrast with my Mojo HD 140, and the other test-bike I’d ridden the weekend before, the ASR5c. I have to say I thought the TRc was a blast to ride, agreeing with most of what’s been said here; tight, stiff, nimble, fast, etc etc, but I did find I clashed the pedals a fair amount if I wasn’t concentrating on avoiding this. This let it down as an all-rounder for me, as my local trails involve quite few steep technical switchbacks etc and the pedal clashing got annoying IMHO, but for fast singletrack it was a hoot. This is all of course a matter of opinion, as one man’s (or woman’s!) donkey, is another man’s thoroughbred… I personally also don’t quite rate the VPP suspension quite as highly as the Dw-link on the Ibis, but again a personal feel thing.
I chose to stick with my Mojo HD 140 over both the TRc and the ASR5c, as I felt it held the all-rounder title more, being equally adept at ripping singletrack, but very few pedal strikes at all on the same techy ground, and I personally love the way the Dw-link suspension rides. An added bonus I love about the HD is that it can easily be switched into a 160mm all-mountain ripper, by just keeping a spare shock and fork. This change is now taking me <15 mins with only an allen-key set in the car-park, and the bike becomes a completely different beast, from a ~25lb singletrack ripper, to a ~28lb gravity sled. Jekyll and Hyde if you will 🙂
Anyways, has anybody here tried a TRc with 650Bs yet??? This by all accounts stems the problem of the low BB, and furthers the already impressive trail-ripping capability it had in 26″ guise….?