We still have a couple of ageing high spec carbon framed 16” MTB’s they’re worth peanuts now but make a brilliant used buy.
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Ah the s works and white fox forks. Is the Giant the Trance model?
We still have a couple of ageing high spec carbon framed 16” MTB’s they’re worth peanuts now but make a brilliant used buy.
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I recall reading about these new fangled 29er MTB’s in MBUK, they’d run a test between 26”, 650b & 29er bikes, with a graph (not on a graph grid) suggesting that the 29er was far and away the fastest bike by quite a margin, till you looked at the actual times and even though the 29er was fastest, followed by 650b and 26” wheel last, in reality it just a handful of seconds difference from 1st to 3rd, proving it was just marketing tosh, I’ve got a 9 year old Cannondale SL3, that’s perfectly fine at doing what it was designed to do, I feel certain that in the near future it’ll be the latest thing again as they market 26” wheels as the new gold standard of MTBBreaking the global 26" mtb standard was move of total idiocy. I have 26" and 700c bikes and they both go OK.
I can see that 29" is good for really big, tall off roaders. The 650b is also a nice wheel size but how much different is it from26". It is bigger so less good for small riders.
Shops cannot support 26", 650b and 700c with all the tyres in stock. Can you buy 650b commuter tyres of the shelf?
If "they" were going to change tyre standards they should have ditched 650a 26" road and made 26" mtb available in road race to mtb sized just as they do with 700c.
Ah the s works and white fox forks. Is the Giant the Trance model?
Breaking the global 26" mtb standard was move of total idiocy. I have 26" and 700c bikes and they both go OK.
I can see that 29" is good for really big, tall off roaders. The 650b is also a nice wheel size but how much different is it from26". It is bigger so less good for small riders.
Shops cannot support 26", 650b and 700c with all the tyres in stock. Can you buy 650b commuter tyres of the shelf?
If "they" were going to change tyre standards they should have ditched 650a 26" road and made 26" mtb available in road race to mtb sized just as they do with 700c.
Interesting you say that - and related to point made above by someone - have known two women on rides who had what looked like 700 wheel bikes at first glance but had been cleverly made (at some expense) to actually use 26 inch wheels. Everything looked fine. Both were japanese as I recall.
edit for clarity - i meant their bikes looked like road bikes.
At least the rest of the family can use Japanese ancestry as an excuse...
I don't have that excuse... I'm just a shortarse, end of.
A mix of 650c, 24" and 26" wheels here.
Well that's the problem, I don't either. To rub it in the older lads are now taller than me and look down on me in every sense of the word...