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I quite often ride Sherwood Pines quite often at the minute. When the weather is nice, i'd say 1/3 of the bikes on the trails will be 29ers (another third will be Orange Fives!). When the weather is bad though, it's a different story!
Either way, i love chasing them down on my 26" Gaspipe Special Singlespeed!
Sefton, any ideas what bike won the Enduro? What size wheels?
not got a clue, the fast boys seemed to have 29ers.
I'd guess they'd still do just as well on a 26" maybe the 29er was good for some marginal gains between the top few?
Have finalised the build of the shiny white Cove G Spot. Just need to get out more. Put a pair of Marzocci AM4 forks (air but still weigh a tonne) on the stiffee so still have a hardtail when the G Spot just seems too much.
Bought this frame last weekend and can't wait to get it built up!
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This Stealth Black Bandit, its my second and it leaves my mates on 29ers for dead! Its Awesome!!!
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Just got my first full susser this week, well a frame that is and building it up, orange ST4, cant wait to finish it!
Pleased to see so many 26" 'ers.
Just bought another 26er. And had my old one rebuilt.
Only got three xc races this year and 26ers will be great on those. The rest of the time I'll just be riding about so it won't matter one iota what I'm on.
[b][u]deejayen:[/b][/u] I'm being told that 29ers are faster, have more traction, climb better, and roll over absolutely everything. I'm trying to keep an open mind on the matter, but it's difficult!
I'd be cautious of taking advice from anybody who is trying to sell you something (including me :-)). I've just got back from a skills course at Glenmore Lodge (report to follow). I was on my 26" Trance. The other student was on an older 26" hardtail. The instructor had just bought a new carbon Specialized 29er of some sort, but chose to use a Zesty 26" bike for the course. Partly to save wear and tear on his own bike of course but he also made the point that it was easier to get the front wheel up on the 26" bike.
Now you may think that you have no interest in lifting wheels at all, but as soon as you take to anything more lumpy than a tow path or forest track you'll find that you need to lift that wheel up in order to get up or down stuff and once you've been shown how to come off a small drop off and land smoothly with both wheels together (rather than hitting the ground like a sack of spuds as I was doing) it soon becomes very addictive. Obviously a 29er doesn't stop you doing that, but it does seem to be a bit easier to learn with a 26" bike.