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kidwoo

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too late...


Yeah it's also been kind of a thing for a lot of the women when this "bike too long, wheels too big, bars too wide" shit was hitting the last few years.






I'm sure the magic of 29ers will fix it with being even LESS able to get behind the bike.


I kinda felt bad for ragot that last year she raced. She's always ridden with NFsG but I'd never seen her constantly getting yanked forward over the front of her bike like that.
 

tabletop84

Monkey
Nov 12, 2011
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Somehow this smells like a long-planned marketing-coup. I mean come on, the mtb-industry is pretty small. The media guys basically switch jobs with industry guys on a regular basis. Sven Martin owns vital and is the bro of rob roskopp etc.

All of a sudden after evererybody and their mum switched to 650b (I'm just in the process of doing it #Yolo) 29ers are _THE_STANDARD_ for montainbikes because "they are faster! What a shame we can't do blind-tests with mtbs" :p" and multiple brands come up with 29er two weeks after Santa Cruz pioneered them in the first race. I call bullshit!
 

jonKranked

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Nov 10, 2005
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media blackout
Somehow this smells like a long-planned marketing-coup. I mean come on, the mtb-industry is pretty small. The media guys basically switch jobs with industry guys on a regular basis. Sven Martin owns vital and is the bro of rob roskopp etc.

All of a sudden after evererybody and their mum switched to 650b (I'm just in the process of doing it #Yolo) 29ers are _THE_STANDARD_ for montainbikes because "they are faster! What a shame we can't do blind-tests with mtbs" :p" and multiple brands come up with 29er two weeks after Santa Cruz pioneered them in the first race. I call bullshit!
 

roflbox

roflborx
Jan 23, 2017
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Raleigh, NC
Somehow this smells like a long-planned marketing-coup. I mean come on, the mtb-industry is pretty small. The media guys basically switch jobs with industry guys on a regular basis. Sven Martin owns vital and is the bro of rob roskopp etc.

All of a sudden after evererybody and their mum switched to 650b (I'm just in the process of doing it #Yolo) 29ers are _THE_STANDARD_ for montainbikes because "they are faster! What a shame we can't do blind-tests with mtbs" :p" and multiple brands come up with 29er two weeks after Santa Cruz pioneered them in the first race. I call bullshit!
That is why the gap between Lourdes and Fort William is so long, it is so more 49rs and bo29er can be put into production.
 

tabletop84

Monkey
Nov 12, 2011
891
15
28,5er Enduros with updated Enduro-specific MicroBoost and new dampers in maya-specific-sizing droppin in 3...2...1