We had been hearing rumors of a new Continental 29″er tread pattern in two sizes for awhile now. Here at Sea Otter we have confirmation that they indeed will release a Trail King pattern in a 2.1 and a 2.4″ size sometime in the near future. Apparently, tooling dilemmas are holding up the progress on [...]

Many of the readers here may not realize this, but back in the early 1990’s a 700c based mountain bike made by Diamond Back called the Overdrive was unleashed on the public. It received rave reviews, but with only one tire available and one suspension fork, the 26 inch market overwhelmed the concept, and Diamond [...]

First of all, I’ll have some exclusive interviews with Brendan Collier of Siren Bikes and Heather Irminger of the Gary Fisher/ Subaru Team coming to you in a few days. Great stuff and very interesting takes on 29″ers and “69ers” as well.
Next I can say that I did in fact track down the elusive Specialized [...]

Full Custom Single Speed. Frame builder is Damien Clark. 21 lbs without any crazy light parts. And a freakin’ blast to ride.

First off, there will be photographs, so stay tuned! This is just getting the word out about the new items seen at Sea Otter so far.
Big news, (or finally fulfilled rumors, depending upon your viewpoint) from Mavic with their CrossMax based 29″er tubeless wheels and Hutchinson’s long awaited Python tubeless tires. The wheels, which have [...]

Okay, so why in the world would a site like Twenty Nine Inches do a post on a 26″er full suspension bike? Well, you’ll have to hang on for a minute on that. The meaning will become clear here in a moment.
First of all, you might want to keep in mind that the same trails [...]