When 29″ers were yet seen as a curiosity, a fad, or something far worse, (some folks are still thinking all three things!), the idea of someone racing a 29″er in the upper ranks of mountain biking was not even on the radar, much less a serious thought. Now things have changed dramatically in those [...]

The spies are busy and forwarding juicy tidbits on Giant’s aluminum model 29″ers to Twenty Nine Inches. Check out the following bits from what looks like a sell sheet or perhaps this is catalog copy, we’re not sure which. (Check out a previous post on the Giant 29″ers from our sister site, The [...]

Twenty Nine Inches has been fortunate to have J&B Importers “Origin 8″ brand let us try some of their new 2X9 mountain cranks recently. You can read a first post on the cranks here. This is my report after several rides on the cranks.

The Origin 8 2X9 cranks are mounted to my Dos Niner, [...]

Here is the last word on FSA’s XC-290 wheel set that we started reviewing back in April. You can see the first post here, and the second post here. There were several observations made during the First Impressions post and I want to revisit each with a final conclusion at the end.

The Rotor Issue: [...]

Twenty Nine Inches has learned that Cannondale plans on introducing a carbon hardtail 29″er to it’s current line up of aluminum hardtails for 2010. The line, which will be introduced at a sales meeting in Park City, Utah next week, will include two versions of the bike. Dubbed the “Flash”, the hardtail will be offered [...]

Now with some more time on the Lynskey performance Ridgeline, I want to break down some of the components that this frame is decked out with and give some short impressions on each.
The Fork: The White Brothers Rock Solid fork is a pretty nice carbon fork. It really compliments this frame well. Not only in [...]