OK - 6'4",intrigued by 29'ers and am considering getting one....
Have been looking around for a while, considered the titanium offerings from the usual suspects and am now looking at the Yeti Big Top 29er. Anyone had any experience of one? Any views?
Any other recommendations?
Ta!
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loving this recently .... ragley TD-1 . Depends what your looking for in a bike but its fast and comfy.
ive set mine up with a rohloff but it can take gears or SS just by swapping drop outs.
Nice looking piece of kit. Whats the reason for choosing this one? 🙂
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Trail Rat, I had no idea there was another titanium 29er Rohloff & Land Rover owner on here.
It turns out I am not as niche as I thought then. 🙁
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emldnhg, I like my Lynskey Ridgeline. I don't know why, but it just feels faster than my aluminium Gary Fisher Rig or the custom Reynolds 725 steel frame I used to have. I've never had chance to compare it to any other titanium frame though.
yeah but you make yours look good !
my landy was bought purely to get me in and out of the house - its fine to walk 2 miles in knee deep snow every day till you have to carry shopping / coal and other things in all the time .....
landy copes with it admirably and i have to admit im getting quite attached to it - theres something about it tht no other car ive driven has - ive had big jap 4x4s before and even they were nothing like this for fun and smiles per mile !
just in from a ride on the td-1 the only improvement would be a 4 inch rear tire for this snow :d
I broke my Land Rover many years ago, but I can't recommend a TD:1 enough 😉
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Very happy with my Singular Swift
Oh. Forgot about the problems. Google cached version:
Loving mine:
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Got a Yeti Big top frame (6ft 4" and XL frame) - its beautiful !. Looks very well made, light as, just trying to find time to build it.
GET ONE !
Not seen another out on the trails, on that basis alone its worth having. 😆
that Yeti does look lush
one of the reasons i tried 29er was they make me look like i'm riding a bike the correct size, rather than a childs bike
of course once i tried it there wasn't any going back really. i can only speak for Singulars though, not ridden any other brands fro long enough to comment on them
in proportion
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steel and Ti are equally lovely though
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Got a Yeti Big top frame (6ft 4" and XL frame) - its beautiful !. Looks very well made, light as, just trying to find time to build it.
I'd give up a night's sleep to get it built if I had one 😉
Some awesome looking pieces of kit - particularly that Jones frame,.... spotted one of those at the D2D a couple of years ago sporting a similar monster tyre...
I really like the look of the Ragley, took a pretty close look at it as originally I was looking for a Ti frame - something that would be able to withstand my "ambition over ability" approach to riding which means I tend to come off fast and hard pretty frequently (usually over the bars).... - but I'm looking for a bit of squish up front to make this years enduros a little more comfortable.
The Yeti looks like a sharp piece of kit, the carbon back end concerns me a little. I have the chance to pick one up in the US in a couple of weeks, but possible reliability issues with the backend concern me....
Take a look at this......
[url= http://twentynineinches.com/2010/11/11/world-exclusive-on-one-report-2-ti-xc-29er/ ]29er Report.[/url]
Salsa Selma is coming in a ti flavour soon.
Looking forward to getting some in the shop.
And the ti el-mariachi is due here any week now.
The selma would be my ti choice, as its also single speed compatible, hub gears too, and you can even run a mech. but I am a steel kind of guy.