If you wanted balls out 29er where would you go – TB or Jones?

Ehat would give you the most joy?

Both are pricey, but what’s going to give the most return

depends what u want to do with it, not ridden even but jones’s look sorted but not sure i could ride one for 24hrs but i think i could ride a TB for 24hrs

Which one would be the most fun on dry summer trails?

Depends where you ride. Tallboy is very very very good by the way, probably the best bike I’ve ever ridden. If you’re anywhere near the Peak District 18 bikes have a large demo Tallboy.

Tallboy for rocky rough stuff, Jones for smooth singletrack stuff.

I’d go for the JJ just because you’ll never see another being ridden at the same time and its funky! 😀
I hope you have big pockets?

Apples or oranges?

Neither, get a Yeti SB-95

Suck it up & go mainstream. Anthem X 29r.
I wants one to go with the swift.

I wouldn’t have the balls to be seen out on a J’s

dear lord that yeti is a swamp donkey!

JJ as a singlespeed niche machine

tallboy as race/enduro bike

problem solved get both

i think all the new shaped curvy framed 29ers are swamp donkeys.

they look terrierrible…… 😀

Hi Ton. I’d drive a Skoda if it drove well 🙂

although I am looking forward to having a go on one of these later this year when my LBS gets one :

That 29er looks like it will ride like a truck

I’d go for the JJ just because you’ll never see another being ridden at the same time

There’s a few of em round this neck of the woods. 8)

hello Bonesetter……….how you keeping?

shinsplints, that is the limit of curvyness….if i was in the market for a new bike, i would have one of them.

and the steel diamond ones are as common as muck just like the owners

SSStu- now that keef has a shiny ring, I have a proto 35 wibbly wobbly going free is you want it on long term plays FOC

Very kind of you Taz but i think a 35t is a bit too much for my “not been out on a singlespeed much in the last 12 months” legs. 😳
Though I could try in on my fatbike? Would it work with an upper chainguide on a 1×9 setup?

ton – good thanks.

So you wouldn’t be seen dead on a Jones 🙂

Although, I ride a Jones geo clone, with shorter CS’s it has to said (Wolfhound)

Tazzy,

I’m off to BQ tomorrow to buy a wheel barrow so you can chop that to bits to fit a fat wheel and then I can give that Scandal a good home again! 🙂

stu it would rock on a 1×9 I’ll pop it in the post and you can play

I’m going to 1×9 my Jones

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stu it would rock on a 1×9 I’ll pop it in the post and you can play

Thanks mate.

I demo’d a tallboy on Wednesday and it’s a great bike, cruises through most stuff without much effort and seated the shock doesn’t bob much. As with most 29ers the climbing seems a bit harder and it took me a while to get it off the ground… But that’s a 29 thing, not bike specific.

Like others have said you’re comparing chalk with cheese.

Ohh and I won’t be buying a tallboy. Nice bike but just not me.

Get both ,they are ace bikes isnt it

i didn’t know you were Welsh dave. 😀

If it were me id get (will prob give in sometime this year) a El Guapo 29er. For the stated price you can’t go wrong 😉