You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more
Anyone know who or what publication first came up with that phrase?
Just wanted to find out the origin of this infamous phrase! 😃
Not looking to reignited the wheel size debate. Just find out about this phrase, no more.
From memory it was used in a Giant promo video when they started heavily pushing the platform. It was one of their sales or marketing guys speaking. I think the video is still on youtube.
Bah.... Google is boring though. It lacks the ferocity of opinion a question on here can illicit.
EDIT: I see what you mean Brant, yes it is! Lol
Aye, Bikeind, that’s it. Suspect they were someone’s second or third, or eighth, log in but entertaining non the less.
Just looking back over that thread above. As much as everyone took the piss, he was right about it becoming the standard (as much as any we have currently)
This one maybe? (I didn't watch all the way through)
If the idea was to replace two standards (26 and 29) with one, it was a failure. And that is what was being talked about at the time, one wheel standard to make life easy for manufacturers and particularly retailers. 26 has been marginalised though, so frame and tyre manufacturers don’t have to worry about it so much. So whereas we once had two wheel standards, now we have 2 1/2. But 27.5 is better than 26 for most purposes, so there has been progress of sorts.
Rob Roskopp wasn't it? In that ranty video where he labelled those not in love with 650b as haters and trolls... At least that's how I choose to remember it.
It's a real shame that old threads are no longer in chronological order, I assume it's something to do with the forum update? The original post ends up somewhere down the first/second page so you've got no idea what everyone is arguing about until you work out where it started!
Tbh, I’d forgotten it was ever more than a meme/pisstake!
I’m not sure it was ever intended to replace 26 & 29, but it certainly did a number on 26.
650b/27.5 does have advantages over 26 if you don’t have a pile of 26” gear and a resistance to change, and in the US market where while bike purchases are apparently more common and terrain often favours less compact bikes with more rollover it’s probably a deserved success. It’s never going to touch 29 for outright speed and monster rollover potential, but while 29ers were still a little ungainly in close quarters that wasn’t a problem- there was a clear place for another size. Now 29ers are finally starting to overcome the hurdles of geometry they faced from the outset and becoming close quarters monsters as well as wide open speed machines it will be interesting to see how much longer 27.5 sticks around...
It's amazing how little people's opinions have changed over the last 5 years.
I honestly thought it had been used in an advert or such.
It had that certain bs "ring" to it.lol
I should have known it would have started as I micky take on here! 😃