Its amazing just got back from a ride in FOD where i dared to ride my rigid singular Gryphon 29er, bearing in mind im an all out roadie who just doesnt do off piste and it was ridiculously good! did all the trails and single track put in front of me and the bike just rolled like a dream, not a stray spoke in sight. Will never ride small wheels again.
singlespeedstu - Memberahwiles.
Stop it now you're just confuslicating the subject with sensible talk.
We'll have none of that on here thank you very much.
i had a look at a 29er in a shop earlier today, it left [u]me[/u] so weak i needed help to leave the shop.
better?
🙂
LOL @ SioffofWebbs, you were truly hardcore today but just imagine how much hardcorer you'd need to be if you was to ride the Q's 😉
i had a look at a 29er in a shop earlier today
I hope you didn't take any children into to shop with you. Next time one of them bigwheels explodes it could be a childs face that has it.
Sioffofwebbs has joined singletrack 🙂
Have you seen your [url= http://www.rollapaluza.com/rollapaluza-cyclescreen-bristol-sponsored-by-webbs-of-warmly-in-the-watershed-arts-centre/ ]pain face from friday night[/url] yet?
Yes much pain @ rollapaluzza. Mountain biking is much more civilized. Nice work trickydisco that was an amazing ride. Did you take those "fans" to your after party? 😉
I haven't yet seen a 29er round my way (West Yorks/Peaks etc), maybe they aren't as well suited to the trails? I don't know.
That's cos under us lanky lads, they look normal.
Matt, 29er int' Peak in 2008
Sioffofwebbs riding a 29er dropbar rigid without the wheels exploding.
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complete with roadie tights :-)))
tollah - MemberSioffofwebbs riding a 29er dropbar rigid without the wheels exploding.
But how do we know the wheels didn't explode just after that picture?
And besides that there's no rockgardens in that picture like there is on the Q's.
Though there might be a few leaves and a few bit's of pointy grass just out of shot.
Rumour has it that the Dyfi Enduro is moving to the Quantocks next year as the organisers now think it isn't rocky enough 😉
Each entrant must wear regulation safety spectacles (like those ones off of biology lessons at school) to protect themselves from flying 29er exploded wheel shrapnel.
Ruscle will obviously win.
martymac - Memberwould anyone care to remind me what size of wheels are ridden in paris roubaix?
Ruscle's point proven: P-R features a veritable bonanza of exploding 29er wheels!
And in case you 29erist forget where it all started, Johann "the Lion of Flanders" Museuw piloted the worlds first 29er full susser at P-R in the 94 edition. Alas, and all too predictably, his wheel exploded.
http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/?pg=fullstory&id=5800
EDIT: p.s. Don't know how "the hell of the north" compares to the Quantocks. Does the latter have a pithy nickname by which we could judge its notoriety?
the niche attention whores seem to have a bit of sand in the old vag...
the niche attention whores seem to have a bit of sand in the old vag...
29ers? niche?
Are you retarded? Even Specialized make em now. That's as un niche as it gets. 😆
Had a shot of a lynskey 29er today at GT, was sooooo disappointed when the wheels didn't go pop, on the upside there will be a lovely carbon 456 for sale next month to help me buy the new scandal 29er when it arrives 🙂
Lol @ Stu
If 29ers roll better over roots etc... does that not make them skill compensators? 😛
oes that not make them skill compensators?
yep, I'll take all the help I can get to make me ride like a god.....it's to make up for having no friends and smelling a bit like a baboon smoking a pipe full of baccy that the dog's wee'd in (mind you that's fairly common in the world of single speed big wheelers)
does that not make them skill compensators?
Yes but lets not tell everyone all they'll not be amazed by our radsik rigid bike skillz innit.
tazy.
You smell more like monkeyspunk than dogweebacky. well you do to me anyway.
singlespeedstu - Memberthe niche attention whores seem to have a bit of sand in the old vag...
29ers? niche?
Are you retarded? Even Specialized make em now. That's as un niche as it gets.
Indeed.. and with people now doing the old phat bike thing. Maybe time to find another sport.
.....hmmmm the smell of salty bananas, and strangely tastes like forgoodnessshakes 😀You smell more like monkeyspunk
Maybe time to find another sport.
After starting schoolboy mx at 5-14, bmx at 10-17, adult mx at 14-17, enduros at 17-23 mtbs at 18-? and still going strong at 43 i think it's fare to say that i'm still going to be riding bikes for a long while yet. Thanks for your help though. 😉
Maybe you should just consentrate on being a fat****er and leave the riding to riders. 😉
sat behind three 29ers today patiently waiting for said explosions ............nothing! there was a fair bit of prawn barfing though 😆
Chuck Norris rides a 29er..... 😉
@sioffofwebbs. Yep.crazy night was had. Got in at 6am went partying with said girls. Need to work our how to beat that Polka jersey spd wearing guy. Anyway Must have another go on 29er preferably a singular
Sorry I'm late got stuck under half a dozen exploding wheels in my garage !
Stu your the best FACT
Si you would have shamed about 99% of the readers on here today with your non wheel exploding antics on your "silly" bike
Tricky you can always borrow one of my Singulars anytime (swift or gryphon) as long as you take the correct safety advice and beware of exploding wheels especially if I've built them 😉
And it's a fact the Q's are so tough on man and machine I have been known to ride a tandem around them 🙂
Off to the garage to get my dangerous bike out! Am I being over cautious?
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Do you not think that if off road cycling was allowed to evolve in europe with no u.s intervention we'd all be riding 29ers.
As a kid my tracker bike was a racer with knobblies and cowhorns.
Dodged a bullet today. Rode my 29er and nothing exploded. I know I'm on borrowed time but I like to live on the edge
'booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom' !
There go my wheels now :o(
I passed a truck on the M1 earlier, good job he wasn't near the Q's otherwise his wheels may have exploded too.
The slightly alarming thing, to a soon to be first time 29er rider like myself, is that Teadrinker has already split and sold the bike he referred to in the initial post. What happened TD? (I note that the wheels you sold had no mention of explodedness).
...a soon to be first time 29er rider like myself...
Don't do it Bol, you're a young man with your whole life ahead of you. Think of the future.
is that Teadrinker has already split and sold the bike he referred to in the initial post. What happened TD?
Slight problem with the back of the house and a lot of money needed to fix the problem! Hence sale of the bike which I only rode for two miles. Never even got to see the wheels explode. Gutted 😥
This thread has got me a bit worried now.
I've got to get on a ferry to Ireland on Thursday and there'll be some of these exploding 29er wheel in the back of my car. What if they go off while i'm on the ferry and sink it. They could kill hundreds of innocent people and I'd be to blame. 😳
Stu,if its the Swansea-Cork ferry,worry not,for me and the Pirate will be taking our dangerously over-sized wheeled bikes on it Wenzdee night.
So of course by Thurzdee it will have been destroyed and sunked by the hooge explosions of our wheels halfway across the wet bit.... 🙄
That'll be two explodicated ferrys then as i'm going Fishguard Rosslare. 😳
Oh well at least there'll be two fatwheels in the car too so maybe any survivors can use them as a makeshift liferaft. 😕
Fear not Guys! I'll be out with the life boat Weds and Thurs just in case the wheels misbehave them selves!
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tk46hal, I shall sleep easier whilst onboard,you old salty seadog you !
Never mind exploding wheels does riding a 29er make you painfully unfunny? This thread would suggest it does. 😐
grum-short for grumpy ?
grum is the biggest 29er haterist in the whole world. He would rather drink a pint of tramps vomit every hour on the hour for the rest of miserable little life rather than admit that maybe, someone out there is having fun on a bike that's different to his 😆
Tazzz,shhhhh ! don't let him know riding bikes (of any description,except bmx of course,cus they're just silly) is fun.....
PS,I hear some people are only running one gear now a days,an all,surely this will result in instant death ?
that's the second time I've been bloomin shhhhhh'd on here today, I'm not going to type at you or tollah any more...you both smell of fudgey gussets......so there! 👿
EDIT:I even hear that there is some sort of secret singlespeederist fight club racing for beer and glory.......but that's gotta be just mad talk
stuff and nonsense,I tell ye.....
grum is the biggest 29er haterist in the whole world.
I am? I really don't care at all what bike people ride and I reckon for some people 29ers are probably great - it's just that there is a fairly tragic clique of people on here who like to constantly willy-wave and attempt to prove how different and special they are. And they're nowhere near as funny as they seem to think.
I'm sure as 29ers get more mainstream they will already be looking for the next niche to occupy.
I was right then.....
*checks grum history for side splittingly funny posts*
*Doesn't find any*
🙁
I just bought an Intense Tracer 29er frame. I'm picking all the parts now... which wheels please?
Note: not exploding ones!
*checks grum history for side splittingly funny posts**Doesn't find any*
The difference is that I don't constantly try desperately hard to be funny and fail miserably though.
You'd be grumpy too if you had to put up with people like you. 😉
You seem to confuse mates taking the piss out of each other with them giving a **** what you think. 🙂
Hey grum(py),you don't have to put up with any thing,you don't have to use this forum........
I think you enjoy it really,don't you,go on,admit it,we won't tell any one 😉
you've been warned about internet grooming stu
As you know I love 29ers, but I would have to agree with grum that you all seem to have the same level of humour as a 2 year old in the fact that you will flog the death out of 1 thing over and over and over again, but then again I think even a 2 year old would have got insanely bored of hearing this joke by now!
And the Q's are still excellent trails and much like me (with regards to 29ers) you all slag them off when you probably haven't rode them or at best followed the magazine rides! but please keep slagging them off and spread the word that they are crap so to keep the trails clear for me to be radsik and gnarly all over! Happy days to you all....
Ruscle and Grum fek off and let us get on with enjoying ourselves unless you're enjoying yourselves too then you'd be welcome to stay and ................ Oh cwap I think my fence sitters wheels have just exploded after riding the Cotswolds tonight 🙁
And just for the record I've ridden the Q's a fair bit locals stuff and well known stuff yeah it's ok but it's not all that.
Oh and one more thing, Taz, be quiet man. 😛
Oooooo someones tired
10 miles over the 'Q' on an ordinary was a bit tough tonight then 🙂
You seem to confuse mates taking the piss out of each other...
I'm not your mate. You were rude about my riding ability once. 👿
I'm not your mate
I never said [b]you[/b] were. 8)
Well, just got back from SSWC,didn't see any exploding 29er wheels to speak of,had a go on a 36er,on which also,bizarrely the wheels didn't explode and kill everyone in the vicinity ,am I doing somethin wrong ? had a great time,with loads of boring, like minded mates,who mainly happen to like SS bikes by some strange co-incidence.
nothing happened,no fun was had,and it'll never catch on. 🙄