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Have I read it correctly? You can switch between the two?
They any good then? Love my G-Spot but it's getting long in the tooth and well, new is new and one way I'll have to go 650.
Is it a proper 650 bike? I know some have managed to cram bigger wheels on 26 frames but it don't sit well with me.
i want a 26/650 frame . i got loads of 26" stuff that has loads of use still in them
You are indeed correct, but you can cram a 650b in as it is. You'll need different drop outs, but they're not much. I had a 1st gen Gspot as the play bike (latterly Xc due to a frame breakage ). The difference between the 2 is night and day
......seriously different in a good way! It's a longer bike so will take a little playing with to get used to, as the Gspot was a great bike for user twisty woods..
Edit to add the dropouts are for proper fitting..
Oh, do you really want or need the rune? The spitty is a very capable bike, the Rune IMHO is overkill unless your smashing parks day in day out.
Mine is the current G-Spot, do you mean the old freeride one?
As to whether I need such a big bike - I don't subscriber to the N+1 rule, since I stopped having a DH bike a few years ago I've always kept to one bike, I simply don't have room for more than one - I live in Cardiff so BPW is a regular thing for me, plus there's Alps trips and whatnot so I've always run a big 6" trail bike - it's a slog on the climbs sometimes, but I'm used to it now.
Yeah the old type I had, not sure how it will compare to the new one as I never rode it. If you're parc centric then understood, I believe the Rune pedals very efficiently for a beast of a bike so you should feel some benefit! blokes I've bumped into aat BPW gave been very impressed with its climbing ability, but more so how well the thing descends..
i want a 26/650 frame . i got loads of 26" stuff that has loads of use still in them
Tony, I'll be bringing my Spitfire with me in May if you want to give it a go! Mine's got 27.5 wheels but it (and its bigger brother, the Rune) can run 26 too, you just change the dropouts (also takes lots of different axle standards) and use the adjustable geometry.
I've got a Rune (shameless pic....)
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Up until me falling in love with hardtails again at the end of last summer, it was the one bike that I rode everywhere from uplift days at Stiniog to long XC rides in the Dales. It's not the lightest bike and is probably overkill for me but it pedals really well...for a 160mm bike it climbs better than it has any right to. There's not too much of a weight penalty of the Spitfire ( they're both porky compared to other brands).
Mine is run as a 26er because I was too tight to fork out for forks, wheels and tyres when I bought it. It weighs in at just over 32lbs. I've not tried it with 650b but figured that I was protected in a way should I be forced down that route later on.
I probably should have bought a Spitfire but at the time I was planning on lots of uplifts plus sessions at local DH tracks so a slightly bigger bike made sense.
I'm after some 26" dropouts if anyone has them lying around in there shed after up sizing.
So would it have any detrimental effect to run 26" wheels on a 27.5 dropout and forks (spitfire)?
I plan to run 26" wheels in 650b dropouts. Wheelbase 10mm longer but BB height should remain unchanged.