Technically it’s not a ti buzzard, nor is it a Ti swift, it’s somewhere between the two. It’s got a shorter arse than the swift but much slacker angles. I think there are 3 protos in existence, I own one, its ace, no two ways about it. If anyone is interested, I’d be happy to have people ride it. We’ve also got a large buzzard demo for a direct comparison.
Horses for courses innit, I have to strip my niner down about once every 4 months to carbo-grip it and then it stays quiet for another 4 months but I’d have to see those dropouts every day!
Plus if I go to a 2 Niner “fleet” (sorry) I can then buy the niner branded riding clothing and not have to worry about making sure I’m riding the right bike for the shirts… 😉
QH dropouts are a non-issue. They don’t move or make any noise. Equally I have used On-one horizontal drop-outs for years with 1 drive-side chain tug – don’t move at all.
Niner EBB on the other hand had a plethora of issues – it has whole threads on mtbr devoted to solutions (I know this is the new version).
