[Closed] 26" is dead...

in the words of matt hoffman. how can it be dead if we're still doing it

Rorschach, find a better wheel builder or DIY. Poor excuse....

how can it be dead if we're still doing it

sometimes it's more fun to do it with the dead 😀

but the serious answer is ...... who really cares?

@jedi.. still have 26", but its sh1t in comparison..

Unless of course yer nae adult sized ???

the_lecht_rocks - Member

Rorschach, find a better wheel builder or DIY. Poor excuse....

LOL.

Though i did hear he actual exploded a 29er wheel at the Dyfi once. 😆

but its sh1t in comparison..

for you and the way you ride doesn't mean that the rest of the riding world will agree

bought a 29 - loved it. meanwhile my 26" bike got more and more heavy duty (456 w/ pikes) every time i rode it it felt heavy and sluggish, i recently put on a normal stem and bars (70/ 685) and i've been riding it a bit more.

29 is good for longer rides & the 26 is fun for messing around in the woods.

just as mountain bikes haven't replaced CX bikes and cruisers haven't replaced 20" bmx there will always be a place for both 26 & 29. that might not be in your shed, but some will want one, some the other & some will be "bikesexual"!

Kudos, do yourself a favour and demo one...

I've been wanting to get my grubby mitts on one for a while, but I don't know anyone who rides them.

@jedi.. still have 26", but its sh1t in comparison..

No its different, not shit.

TLR, you only ride smooth easy polished trails, come and ride it round 'sweary northerner' trails, and see how you do on it........ 😆

kudos100 come for ride fella and borrow one of the fleet

very difficult to look stylish in the air on a 29er.

very difficult to look stylish [s]in the air[/s] on a 29er.

😉

It did'nt explode...it was more pppfffffttttttttttttt 😐

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Its a good size for roadbike wheels is it not?

jedi - Member
i have only coached maybe 5-6 riders on 29er's in 2yrs

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Should I sell mine??? Quick help me. I just sold my Five pro to buy the new Five black and gold.

baaaah

I'm 5'9" and I think I'm not tall enough for [s]a clown bike[/s] 29" wheels. I imagine for 6"+ septics they're great.

Discuss.

Andy

i ride with a small hobbit type bloke, fits him fine

Rorschach - Member

It did'nt explode...it was more pppfffffttttttttttttt

So from that we can take it that 29er wheels are so shit they can't even explode properly.

2 turned up fully rigid 29 with loopy doopy stoopid bars too oh hiya ringo 🙂

You're like so yesterday

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I went to the singlespeed worlds this summer and there were plenty of folks riding the 29er band waggon.. Now, who was I getting caught up behind on the singletrack uphills, as their supposedly nice rolling bikes were unable to thrutch over even the smallest little rocky lumps?

Jedi - you coached me on my 29er! 😉

I was at the Dyfi Enduro on mine last year. Great bike shame about the course - boring!

Planning to sell my last 26er this month!

Like I said, still have 26", but they're incomparable... Will relent wrt choice, but seriously.... go demo 29" if you've resisted so far... Brilliant....!!!

shortcut, you're one of the 5-6 🙂

i'm not joking. they are not as common as media make out

26 is DEAD???

Hardly. Having demo'd the same bike (all be it that I didn't have it for a month like you did...) I liked it but the HA is a little on the steep side for my liking. It would have been nice to have had it for longer but well, we know what happened there don't we.

Yeah swapping between sizes does take a little bit of getting used to, but it doesn't alter the fact that we've been riding 26 for decades. The 26 is quicker steering in the woods and a bit more chuckable too.

I'm going to dip the toe in the 29er waters but I ain't selling the 26ers anytime soon. Reverted to plan A though.

TLR, stop fannying about, and post a sodding pic then.

rocketdog- you filthy pervert begone with your pictures of colour clashing 69ery gear dangly gop

does it help without gears?
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I think that this ends the discussion - 29er singlespeed Ti and a Kona - job jobbed!

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@ rocketdog, no 'cos you're ruined a lovely trek by not having big silly mav duc32's on it and put some "old man's moris marina green" forks on instead

YOU HAVE NO SHAME!!!!!!!

it's just another boring old lynskey with a kona badge 😉

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i like the kona but jamis dragon 650b .

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tazzymtb - Member
@ rocketdog, no 'cos you're ruined a lovely trek by not having big silly mav duc32's on it and put some "old man's moris marina green" forks on instead

YOU HAVE NO SHAME!!!!!!!

SC32s are much better, you can turn corners wiv 'em
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Ton, sorry, but mine is being custom built by Nicolai as we msg. Should be here when I get back from California...

SC32s are much better, you can turn corners wiv 'em

unless you have a 29er wheel because we all know* that 29er's can't do corners and are only used for fire roads

*based on the evidence of those that have never ridden a 29er and what some bloke told me down the pub

You aint got nuffin on me

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Diavel. Cutting edge. Vive le tour monsieur..

who cares, its got wheels, chuck it down the hill 😛

Diavel. Cutting edge. Vive le tour monsieur..

I dream of the day when I can be as [s]certain about anything[/s] [i]good a troll[/i] as TLR is [s]about everything[/s]