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  • kudos100
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    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
    Full 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
    Full 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
    Full 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
    Full Member

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

    Posted 12 years ago
    the_lecht_rocks
    Full 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
    Full 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
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