26" is dead…

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26" is dead…
kudos100
Free Member

29’ers are shit. I haven’t ridden one, but feel like I need to balance out the dogma spouted my the evangelists about a bike with bigger wheels. 😀

Posted 12 years ago

the_lecht_rocks
Free Member

I have more than 1 of each, and therefore offer a more adjudicated opinion…. 26″ is DEAD….

Posted 12 years ago

Rorschach
Free Member

Two words……..exploding,wheels.
That is all.

Posted 12 years ago

tazzymtb
Full Member

rocketdog- you filthy pervert begone with your pictures of colour clashing 69ery gear dangly gop

Posted 12 years ago

the_lecht_rocks
Free Member

Kudos, do yourself a favour and demo one…

Posted 12 years ago

jedi
Full Member

in the words of matt hoffman. how can it be dead if we’re still doing it

Posted 12 years ago

the_lecht_rocks
Free Member

Rorschach, find a better wheel builder or DIY. Poor excuse….

Posted 12 years ago

tazzymtb
Full Member

how can it be dead if we’re still doing it

sometimes it’s more fun to do it with the dead 😀

Posted 12 years ago

tazzymtb
Full Member

but the serious answer is …… who really cares?

Posted 12 years ago

the_lecht_rocks
Free Member

@jedi.. still have 26″, but its sh1t in comparison..

Posted 12 years ago

the_lecht_rocks
Free Member

Unless of course yer nae adult sized ???

Posted 12 years ago

singlespeedstu
Full Member

the_lecht_rocks – Member

Rorschach, find a better wheel builder or DIY. Poor excuse….

LOL.

Though i did hear he actual exploded a 29er wheel at the Dyfi once. 😆

Posted 12 years ago

tazzymtb
Full Member

but its sh1t in comparison..

for you and the way you ride doesn’t mean that the rest of the riding world will agree

Posted 12 years ago

thomthumb
Free Member

bought a 29 – loved it. meanwhile my 26″ bike got more and more heavy duty (456 w/ pikes) every time i rode it it felt heavy and sluggish, i recently put on a normal stem and bars (70/ 685) and i’ve been riding it a bit more.

29 is good for longer rides & the 26 is fun for messing around in the woods.

just as mountain bikes haven’t replaced CX bikes and cruisers haven’t replaced 20″ bmx there will always be a place for both 26 & 29. that might not be in your shed, but some will want one, some the other & some will be “bikesexual”!

Posted 12 years ago

kudos100
Free Member

Kudos, do yourself a favour and demo one…

I’ve been wanting to get my grubby mitts on one for a while, but I don’t know anyone who rides them.

Posted 12 years ago

DuggieStyle
Free Member

@jedi.. still have 26″, but its sh1t in comparison..

No its different, not shit.

Posted 12 years ago

ton
Full Member

TLR, you only ride smooth easy polished trails, come and ride it round ‘sweary northerner’ trails, and see how you do on it…….. 😆

Posted 12 years ago

tazzymtb
Full Member

kudos100 come for ride fella and borrow one of the fleet

Posted 12 years ago

jedi
Full Member

very difficult to look stylish in the air on a 29er.

Posted 12 years ago

tazzymtb
Full Member

very difficult to look stylish ~~in the air~~ on a 29er.

😉

Posted 12 years ago

Rorschach
Free Member

It did’nt explode…it was more pppfffffttttttttttttt 😐

Posted 12 years ago

billysugger
Free Member

Posted 12 years ago

TandemJeremy
Free Member

Its a good size for roadbike wheels is it not?

Posted 12 years ago

Ringo
Free Member

jedi – Member
i have only coached maybe 5-6 riders on 29er’s in 2yrs

POSTED 19 MINUTES AGO # REPORT-POST
bet the fools turned up with silly loopy bars as well hey Tony 😀

Posted 12 years ago

billysugger
Free Member

Should I sell mine??? Quick help me. I just sold my Five pro to buy the new Five black and gold.

baaaah

Posted 12 years ago

ratherbeintobago
Full Member

I’m 5’9″ and I think I’m not tall enough for ~~a clown bike~~ 29″ wheels. I imagine for 6″+ septics they’re great.

Discuss.

Andy

Posted 12 years ago

Ringo
Free Member

i ride with a small hobbit type bloke, fits him fine

Posted 12 years ago

singlespeedstu
Full Member

Rorschach – Member

It did’nt explode…it was more pppfffffttttttttttttt

So from that we can take it that 29er wheels are so shit they can’t even explode properly.

Posted 12 years ago

jedi
Full Member

2 turned up fully rigid 29 with loopy doopy stoopid bars too oh hiya ringo 🙂

Posted 12 years ago

billysugger
Free Member

You’re like so yesterday

Posted 12 years ago

bikewhisperer
Free Member

I went to the singlespeed worlds this summer and there were plenty of folks riding the 29er band waggon.. Now, who was I getting caught up behind on the singletrack uphills, as their supposedly nice rolling bikes were unable to thrutch over even the smallest little rocky lumps?

Posted 12 years ago

shortcut
Full Member

Jedi – you coached me on my 29er! 😉

I was at the Dyfi Enduro on mine last year. Great bike shame about the course – boring!

Planning to sell my last 26er this month!

Posted 12 years ago

the_lecht_rocks
Free Member

Like I said, still have 26″, but they’re incomparable… Will relent wrt choice, but seriously…. go demo 29″ if you’ve resisted so far… Brilliant….!!!

Posted 12 years ago

jedi
Full Member

shortcut, you’re one of the 5-6 🙂

i’m not joking. they are not as common as media make out

Posted 12 years ago

metalheart
Free Member

26 is DEAD???

Hardly. Having demo’d the same bike (all be it that I didn’t have it for a month like you did…) I liked it but the HA is a little on the steep side for my liking. It would have been nice to have had it for longer but well, we know what happened there don’t we.

Yeah swapping between sizes does take a little bit of getting used to, but it doesn’t alter the fact that we’ve been riding 26 for decades. The 26 is quicker steering in the woods and a bit more chuckable too.

I’m going to dip the toe in the 29er waters but I ain’t selling the 26ers anytime soon. Reverted to plan A though.

Posted 12 years ago

ton
Full Member

TLR, stop fannying about, and post a sodding pic then.

Posted 12 years ago

rOcKeTdOg
Full Member

rocketdog- you filthy pervert begone with your pictures of colour clashing 69ery gear dangly gop

does it help without gears?
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Posted 12 years ago

rogerthecat
Free Member

I think that this ends the discussion – 29er singlespeed Ti and a Kona – job jobbed!

Posted 12 years ago

tazzymtb
Full Member

@ rocketdog, no ‘cos you’re ruined a lovely trek by not having big silly mav duc32’s on it and put some “old man’s moris marina green” forks on instead

YOU HAVE NO SHAME!!!!!!!

Posted 12 years ago

tazzymtb
Full Member

it’s just another boring old lynskey with a kona badge 😉

Posted 12 years ago