29ers Anyone?

"Gary in VA" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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"Carla A-G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

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A buddy of ours rides a SS 29'r (a beautiful Strong frame). He swears by

the

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bike and rides it everywhere.

- CA-G

Strong is the maker I'm thinking about. Trying to choose between them and
Sycip.

Gary in VA

Strong has Jason The Mutant welding for him now. Even so, Strong is
the better choice, especially for custom.

JD

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Booker C. Bense said:

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"Gary in VA" <[email hidden]> wrote:
> ... I've ridden a couple of 29ers and liked them.
> Anyone here have any long term experience on them? Pros? Cons?

Crappy rim and tire selection.

_ While there aren't 800 roughly identical tires, there are
enough to be getting on with.

For you, but not for me. Subtle differences in tires are noticed by
an experenced rider. Barneys see tires as "roughly identical"...
...As far as what Tom Purvis had to say, he can ramble on all he wants
about 29ers. I'm (as most other mountain bikers) not buying it.

So don't. I'm really not selling it. I tried to describe it. FYI.

As for rambling on, well, everybody's good at something. Maybe you
should killfile me.

Why so much angst about this subject? Why should you care if a few
barneys like me roll around on different wheels and rubber?
--
Tom Purvis - http://www.arkansasvalley.net/tpurvis/
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."-Bertrand Russell

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>"Gary in VA" <[email hidden]> wrote:
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>>... I've ridden a couple of 29ers and liked them.
>>Anyone here have any long term experience on them? Pros? Cons?
>
>Crappy rim and tire selection.

_ While there aren't 800 roughly identical tires, there are
enough to be getting on with.

For you, but not for me. Subtle differences in tires are noticed by
an experenced rider. Barneys see tires as "roughly identical"...
...As far as what Tom Purvis had to say, he can ramble on all he wants
about 29ers. I'm (as most other mountain bikers) not buying it.

So don't. I'm really not selling it. I tried to describe it. FYI.

As for rambling on, well, everybody's good at something. Maybe you
should killfile me.

Why so much angst about this subject? Why should you care if a few
barneys like me roll around on different wheels and rubber?

As long as it's you and not some naive impressionable person that got
talked into buying something that is being marketed just so the bicycle
industry can grow another revenue stream that's fine. The angst comes from
hearing the BS that comes out of the manufacturers.

Greg

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Why so much angst about this subject?

Contrary to what you may think, I have no anxiety at all about 29ers.
I'm mostly amused by hype, those who buy into it and then try to pawn
it off as a standard.

JD

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Why so much angst about this subject?

Contrary to what you may think, I have no anxiety at all about 29ers.
I'm mostly amused by hype, those who buy into it and then try to pawn
it off as a standard.

JD

Not that it would have been different on 26", but my brother sure kicked my
ass last night on his 29" Karate Monkey. He loves it, but he _is_ a
triathlete (who incidentally got 2nd Expert in the Moab X-Terra last
weekend).

Matt (the odd one out in a crazy triathlete family)

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"Gary in VA" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
> I start a new job on Monday (after 18 months of
> unemployment/underemployment) and of course my first thought is about a new
> bike. I've ridden a couple of 29ers and liked them. Anyone here have any
> long term experience on them? Pros? Cons?
>
> Gary in VA (and staying in VA)

Crappy rim and tire selection.

_ While there aren't 800 roughly identical tires, there are
enough to be getting on with.

For you, but not for me. Subtle differences in tires are noticed by
an experenced rider. Barneys see tires as "roughly identical".

_ Yeah! I'm a Barney and a Fred! Despised by both "serious
experienced" riders on both road and dirt...

_ Booker C. Bense

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>Crappy rim and tire selection.
>

_ While there aren't 800 roughly identical tires, there are
enough to be getting on with.

For you, but not for me. Subtle differences in tires are noticed by
an experenced rider. Barneys see tires as "roughly identical".

_ Yeah! I'm a Barney and a Fred! Despised by both "serious
experienced" riders on both road and dirt...

Yeah, "stanford" says it all. Do you work for Yahoo!?

JD