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Just playing Devil's advocate here but........
.....if 29" wheels are so good why has it taken 30+yrs to realise?
Most if not all cycling nations have also ridden Cyclocross bikes on the 'magic' wheel size but no one realised until MTB sales started to flag and road bike sales increased!
Yes they are rubbish.
poor troll 🙁
only if you have got little man syndrome.
Really?
Are 29'ers a sales gimmick?
Yes, i'm afraid they are.
I believe so. I think they probably just feel different.
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This will now be my standardized answer to all 29er posts.....consider yourselves warned
"Little man syndrome" if you mean 29''ers are better for bigger riders and 26'ers are better for small riders then yes but it doesn't make 29'ers the must have/holy grail for everyone.
but it doesn't make 29'ers the must have/holy grail for everyone.
Who said that?
What are these 29ers you talk of?
but it doesn't make 29'ers the must have/holy grail for everyone.
That would be 650b, surely?
greenman - Member"Little man syndrome" if you mean 29''ers are better for bigger riders and 26'ers are better for small riders then yes but it doesn't make 29'ers the must have/holy grail for everyone.
agreed, but if you are from the land of the giants, then a 29r is the perfect tool for the job.
ton - EXACTLY
29ers been around since the 80s so you fail at your first hurdle. It's just that it's taken years for the mainstrem to catch up with the beardy wierdies. They ARE still cwap though and tend to be ridden by rubbish middleaged duffers desperate to prove how cool they are. The bike equivalent to sandles socks and courdroy
The sport is still relatively young and developed on 26" bikes with the main thrust of development being on frames, suspension, componentry, brakes. Now the product has become pretty well developed and all the main components have been developed to a pretty high and sophisticated state, and reached the end of the development cycle on 26" wheeled bikes. They are looking for the next opportunity to extract further performance out of a bike - hence 29 inch wheels. It is the same with the development cycle of any product - you go for the big and easy hitters first and once you've exhausted those, you start to look deeper for smaller and smaller gains. Always attack the weakest link, fix that, then move onto the next.
I wish someone would come up with a new marketing gimmick to make these kind of threads interesting.
Ride whatever you want no one gives a ****.
ssstu........oh yes they do.
In that case they're ****s.
Roschach, go for the gif next time.
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CFH.
Snot as good without the sound.
ssstu, we are all sad ****s, that is why we come on here innit.
Is it groundhog day in here??
No, on groundhog day he only had to deal with it once a day.
Good find Cap'n 😀
No
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How can i adequately express my thoughts on this .....?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhh!
That will do it.
Tazzy that is horrid. Really really horrid and wrong too. He will get grollies stuck in his eye brow.
Tazzy that is horrid. Really really horrid and wrong too
every time someone starts a blinking 26 vs 29 thread I shall post progressively more disturbing images until, finally, any STWer only has to think the question and horific mental images will maul their fragile minds.
FFS just ride what you like and stop worrying about what others do 😀
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Headbanger #1 ...
rotten.com, I'd forgotten about that. Thankfully )
and OP,
You have the benefit of doubt there. The only real answer is in MTB history and a bit of marketing stuff.Just playing Devil's advocate here but........
Great question op..I would say yes if yer under 6 ft and want to look absolutely ridiculous! 😆
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What - who?
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