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I see that Niner do an xs (14")29r hardtail EMD 9. Are the any good? If they are why are others saying that 29rs are only good for 6'+ people......i'm 5'4"!
If you try it and it works for you then its Awesome,
when i ride a 26" bike i feel like i'm riding one a few sizes too small, even though it's supposedly the "correct" size, i imagine you would feel the opposite, but the only way to know for sure is to try it
others saying that 29rs are only good for 6'+ people......i'm 5'4"!
They are wrong!!!
The reason they say it is due to the hight of the bars relative to the saddle. If you like your bars and saddle level, a small 29er should be fine. If you like a racier, more front-weighted position, you might not.
Willow Koerber is 5'2" and races on a HT 29er with some success. See http://www.bikeradar.com/mtb/news/article/pro-bike-willow-koerbers-subaru-trek-superfly-elite-27994/ . Small 29ers can have toe overlap issues.
Plus it looks like you borrowed your dads bike 😆
Willow gets paid to promote what Trek want her to, look at the mods they had to do to get the bike to fit, deffo be better for racing on a 26"
Which mods are you referring to? Do you mean the stem? This is fairly normal for many pros on 29ers. Have a look at Burry Stander's http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/pro-bike-burry-standers-specialized-s-works-stumpjumper-carbon-ht-29er-26230/ . I've got a 110mm - 17 on my 29erHT.
ed to get around the issues, adding a small spacer beneath the crown race to move the taper further down in the head tube, dropping the fork travel (and thus, crown-to-axle height) by 10mm, swapping to a -12° stem, and trading in last years riser for a flat one
Sounds like mods to me, spacer under crown race? -12 degree stem etc, and you think that is normal?sounds like someone needed a smaller wheeled bike
I've a 5mm crown race spacer. The 80mm fork and flatbars came as standard. Pretty normal stuff on a high end XC 29er HT. The severe negative angle stems do look quite strange though.