Comments on: Unexpected 29″ differences : #1, Braking

By: roger

roger — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:40:41 +0000

Hey Guys

I’m considering a 29er and at the moment ride a 26er gary fisher marlin. If I was to buy a new bike, I’d maybe want to spend around £5-600, but the cheapest 29er that I can find is £700. Is it really worth the last wee bit. I can’t quite tell whether you think they’re quality, or not worth the bother. By the way I’m 6 ft 2 and am only 16 so may still grow a few more inches.

Thanks very much, Roger

Oh yeah, can you also possibly recommend a model or two?

By: adam

adam — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:07:43 +0000

although you’re gonna spend more time in the air endo-ing a 29er, you also get to admire the view for longer as you fly through the air. maybe you’ll even find a softer place to land?…

By: victor pettit

victor pettit — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:09:52 +0000

This is a question not comment. I’m looking to install front disc brake on redline mono 29. Any suggestions on rotor size and brand. Thanks in advance.

By: Cloxxki

Cloxxki — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:06:37 +0000

If a bike had two front wheels inline, mounted on a rocker with the fork mounted on axle-height in the middle, endo’ing would happen in the same manner, right? That leads me to believe we should look as the axle as the pivot.
Even if you do use the contact patch, the distance between COG and contact patch increases through the endo, so the “virtual” pivot point comes down to the front axle anyways.
When the front brake is locked, I agree that the COG pivots (rolls) around the contact patch.
Please educate me where I’m wrong this time, thanks for contributing here Shiggy!

By: shiggy

shiggy — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:39:26 +0000

Change in the height of COG because of wheelsize/axle height does not exist. The dynamics of a bike does not pivot around the wheel axles. The pivot point is the contact point of the tire on the ground

By: Cloxxki

Cloxxki — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:26:06 +0000

Yeah, you’re badass alright!

Endo’ing is much rarer now that I ride the big wheels, but when it does happen, it hurts…

I recently managed to endo at the start of a sandy downhill (a corner at the top of a dune, really). I took the 29″ grip and stability for granted, hardly held on to the handlebar. So it got ripped from my hands as the wheel got caught in a sand hole. I endo’d down the dune, and it was a HARD fall. You fall from higher up, after all, but possibly don’t fly as far horizontally. I don’t know, and no further endo experiments planned any time soon.

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By: wolfy

wolfy — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:23:19 +0000

Hay Clox!

Does that mean you get more hard-core credibility for endoing on a 29er? Cause if so I’m what they call Bas ASS!!!!!! (or maybe the other)

With the 29er you also get a few more seconds in that faceplant phase to think to your self, “I’m ok, I can pull it out. This will be ok. OH CRAP I’M Gonna STAAAAAAAACKKK!!!”

-M