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Just a bit of quick a poll really - to see what are your biggest frustrations are if you are a 29er owner? i.e. what parts are hard, expensive or difficult to get hold of etc.....
they make you want to own another 26r.
they are not as much fun on really rough terrain.
and they make you pretend that you have the best bike ever........when really you have not (it is just that you are loathe to admit it aint so when you spent so much on it). 8)
Which one to ride 😉
people asking why you ride a 29er
Can't think of one TBH.
agree with fontmoss...
none at all for me except forks cost about £100 plus more per model available as do tyres at about £5-£10 each,
and if you swap the build over from a 26" er then you may find a 22T 32R lowest gear aint quite low enough north of the border...a 34t should be better but the new 36t shimano should be ideal... 😮
there good for wheelies 😉
Other 29er riders who think they (and you) are somehow special and clever or worse yet trendy and niche because they have a 29er
Having to tell your parents you're gay.
IGMC.
My only gripe is that Merlin don't do 29er bits!!
nowt, cos when i ride mine, i know that i'm riding something better than a 26" wheeled bike
😈
they are not as much fun on really rough terrain.
you ain't riding it proper...
Having to always remember to take spare tyres and tubes with me when I go anywhere for a riding holiday.
That and all the bollocks that gets pedalled about them in magazines - see MBUK this month for example. A list of pros and cons of 29ers, presumably written by someone who's not ridden a 29er for more than a couple of rides and who has just rehashed all the classic stereotypes... Grr....
GB
they are not as much fun on really rough terrain.
Wrong bike then.
Some people seem to think I have to justify it. My only justification is 'that is a 23" frame and it is so in proportion, you didn't even know it was a 29er'. 😮
The jealous little digs from 26" owners 😛
Decent wheels aren't available cheaply.
Ton - you forgot to type I instead of You.
Ruts are more of a pain, but thankfully I mostly left those in the Peak when we moved north.
it takes longer to pump the tyres up
29ers just seem to be the new singlespeeds for the attention seeking mountain biker. Well, the slower riding attention seeking mountain bikers anyways.
don't you have to have a moustache?
(wierdy beard singlespeed => lipbrow 29er)
boxelder.............it should have been we 😉
Slower riders? Hahaha. Mine's never been off the podium! See Steve Webb and several top pros these days for more examples...
Knowing deep down that the only reason you have one is an aching desire to try and prove how different and individual you are - yet realising that ultimately it simply reveals an even more emotionally stilted kind of conformity?
😉
rubber choice is a bit limited for my anorak tyre nerd needs*, but the schwalbe 29er rocket rons and nobby nics for next year will sort me out nicely.
erm......
oh yeh and all the try hards vs 29er hater bollox. It's a bike and riding bikes is fun. If it's not or you are worrying about what others are doing you need a new past time at least to change your mindset. 🙂
*anyone want some 29er 2.35 rampages used once. I didn't like em so they're up for barter for beer or cake
Tazzy - are they still only doing the Rons and Ralphs in a 2.25? When will they do a 2.1!
very true tazzymtb
i ride with guys every week who arnt really interested about what size wheels i or they ride...or make of bike for that matter...but we ride bikes as friends and enjoy the trails... 😮
people convinced that the defining quality of a bike is determined by wheel diameter.
Not owning one, if that makes sense
Ok.... So I can see that the 'frustrations' are mainly vanity/verbal/image etc. but the reason I ask is that I am able to get my hands on various parts for 29er's, many of which are not available in the UK - so I am trying to decide which parts to start with, therefore perhaps the question should be - what parts would you want to be able to get hold of easier for your 29er?
gee- I read a review of pre production tyres (twentynine inches I think) that says the 2011's are going to be tubeless ready rather than UST or standard and in new sizes, 2.1 and 2.3 rather than 2.25 and 2.4 so fingers crossed that they'll actually deliver.
29er 2.1 rons would be ace (oooooo, 520 grams for the 29er ron , I'm getting all excitable !!)
what parts would you want to be able to get hold of easier for your 29er?
that's easy
FORKS- decent 29er forks at a fair price are as rare as rocking horse poo!
Other than a fork, what else would you spec differently that's difficult to hold of?
What's your biggest frustration about owning a 29er?
Swooning women and 29er-curious blokes pestering you.
with advent of bigger travel/all mountain 29er's coming into the uk probably 36T 29er specific shimano cassettes
Without reading the rest of the posts i suspect it would be the P1ss take
36T shimano cassettes are on ebay (pratical cycles) and i think Mark at the Bikechain has them...or getting them...
ltheisinger- looks like there's not that much that isn't already available with a wee bit of hunting around really 🙂
tazzymtb - Memberltheisinger- looks like there's not that much that isn't already available with a wee bit of hunting around really
but it would be nice to get them at a reasonable price I would assume, because from what I can tell the prices seem inflated?
ahhh well if you can bits at a decent price then we'll all love you 🙂
tazzymtb - Memberahhh well if you can bits at a decent price then we'll all love you
I'll do my best! 🙂 hence why I trying to find out what parts you guys would want the most, i.e. just difficult to get hold of or hard to come by at a decent price?
actually fork spares, lowers etc with bolt through axles for fox and rockshox so that folks can upgrade existing forks to a bolt through.
Also opens up the frankenfork buildability nicely 😆
the lack of decent available 29er forks means that I'm on tazzshox version 3 made with a mix of revelation u-turns, reba 29er bits and I may build a set using pike coil uppers for my ****ting about bike
All the decent production fs 29ers (anthem,epic,superfly) are about 25% more expensive than an identically specced 26"...gggrrrrrrrr.
29er for bikes = 3D for TV.
Just a gimick/cash cow for people who are not fast enough off road.
Just a gimick/cash cow for people who are not fast enough off road.
yeh because the niner team, fisher team and some of the salsa riders are just as slow as an asthmatic snail carrying heavy shopping up hill aren't they.
I mean fuzzy mylne even beats geared xc racers on a 29er SS so either lots of yank racers are crap or you troll has gone back under his bridge 😆
I'd heard about the tubeless ready ones - they've finally admitted their sidewalls are awful. Will be interesting to see if the 2.1s finally appear - could finally tempt me off the Alberts...
Tazzy , if youve still got the tyres ill sort you some beer n cake, good excuse to come up to cannock , not been there on a 29er 😀
Frustrating for me is having a costly FS bike in the garage, rarely used in preference to my rigid 29er.
Probably a passing fad. Fun though.
cheesy- they're yours mate. I'll do you a tour of the off piste as well if you fancy it 🙂
lack of tyres, hurry up nobby nic 29ers!
isn't the biggest downer that you need to be above median height or the bike just looks silly and is dangerous to ride?
dmjb4 ...510" and no probs with standover , feel like im in the bike not perched on top .
Tazzy ,off piste , yes please . i`ll bring theswede 8)
cheesy I'll look forward to it. Swede has my email so get him to drop me a line and we'll get sorted.
My 19" steel frame weights just under 5.3/4LB and all though the whole bike only weights 28.5lb it feels a bit sluggish at times.
common sense is trying to stop me from buying this of e-bay, as my mate is off to his sisters in orlando tomorrow and has offered to go and collect it for me.
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And not being able to decide what bike frame to put fox 29er talas on..
Hello!
There is no problem with 29er stuff here!
Bikes from Gary, Trek, ragley and Niner.
5 29er forks in stock (2 rockshox, 2 marzochhi, 1 fox) oh and niner rigids.
Tubes always.
Tyres from Bonty (7 at the moment) Maxxis(5) panaracer, Intense, conti..
Rims and wheels in stock
Matthew
I like 29ers. Other wheel sizes available!
Unable to hack a 26 " wheeler
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Has anyone said tight hairpins?
Has anyone said tight hairpins?
don't be silly, everyone knows that if a 29er leaves a fire road it'll explode in a cloud of cliches and kill the rider, therefore your comment is illogical 😉
So night riding Dalby in the pouring rain last week was a bad idea?
Am I dead already? On second thoughts, don't answer that - if I am I don't want to know.
And does the fact it's rigid make it better or worse?
Makes you want a 69er or a 36er
Am I dead already?
I'm afraid so and this is hell, you must have been a very bad boy! how else do you explain some of the "interesting" characters on here. There's no way TJ SFB, or Elfinsafety would exist in the real world. They are all the lord of darkness's little imps sent to torment the doomed souls on Satan'strack.
Is it not common knowledge that certain people get 29ers for much the same reason that less generously endowed men get larger than neccesary cars?
i am just in the process of having a reduction op then........... 😉
isn't the biggest downer that you need to be above median height or the bike just looks silly and is dangerous to ride?
Bit like riding your dads bike when you were 9'
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It takes longer to pump up the tyres on a 29er. (I make up the time by coasting away from my 26" friends on the descents.)
RealMan - Member
Having to tell your parents you're gay.
........'said the tight lycra clad carbon weight weenie limp wristed couscous eating roadie wufter'. 😆
The biggest problem is what to do with all the expensive 26ers lying unused in the shed.
Can always lend them out to midgets, I suppose 🙂
The front wheel trying to tuck under in really tight singletrack.... otherwise mine is perfect.
not noticing and notfontmoss - Memberpeople
asking why you ride a 29er
there, fixed it for you...
about 25% more expensive than an identically specced 26"
well the wheels are pretty much 25% bigger, so that's about fair isn't it 😉
Clowns keeps asking for it back.
No frustrations. My 29er does exactly what I expect it to do. Its just a bike after all.
Forks seem more expensive and the lbs has to order stuff in specially for me because I choose bigger wheels.
On the trail there is no frustration other than I am even less good at wheelies on the 29er than I was with smaller wheels.
29er all the way for me now.
(other size wheels are available for midgets and people with questionable taste!)
I sat on a 29er just the once ? and the alltitude made my nose bleed. They do seem to roll over stuff well but I aint tall enough to run one.
My biggest frustration is that other 29er riders seem to think that you're some part of some elite/niche group because you ride such a machine.It's just a ****in' bike with big wheels ffs.Lot of SSers are the same too.....Again,just a bike !
My biggest frustration is that other [s]29er[/s] mountain bike riders seem to think that you're some part of some elite/niche group because you ride such a machine.
just because you ride a mountain bike doesn't mean I like you or we have to be friends 🙂
Fair point tbh,a lot of mtbers are total pr!cks..... 😆
it's true - i am.