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^ Njee, and that test was actually really interesting, would be waaaay better done with a lot more runs, and more riders, and on more trails though.
It's also still very hard to deal with the variable power aspect of the human though, even with a power meter and good self control, lots more you could do, but where do you stop in tests like this...
Of course, I find it surprising no one's attempted to do something similar since AFAIK.
Obviously more than anyone (including world champions factory teams) is willing to spend to achieve.End of.
Nino Schurter would disagree - he had his bike a few years before Scott even had a production 650B.
Surely the main (if not only) reason manufacturers get involved in racing is to promote their brand and, more importantly, the products [i]they [/i]want to sell us?
oldnick - Member
By the time the 26er lost enough weight it would be so fragile and skittish it would be unusable IMHO.The doubters always harp on about wheel weight and the increased effort to accelerate them, but in my experience the 29er corners better on the same tyres than the 26er, thus needing less accelerating to be done post corner. Then the lower rolling resistance kicks in and bingo, Kryton buys a new bike.
Not better. It carrys the momentum of the weight/size. Which on a tight corner could have it under steering thus invoking braking therefore loss of speed. Vis a vis, the rider has to learn to get the best of each wheel size, it's not a magic answer.
Oh and I've bought a 650b. 🙂