For those who are not close to, or in the cycling industry, you may not be aware that the industry trade magazine of highest respect in North America is “Bicycle Retailer and Industry News“. (Commonly referred to as “BRAIN”) It sometimes reports on how bikes are selling in North America in certain categories. For [...]

Editor’s Note: This week we let Grannygear loose on the subject of what is the perfect amount of travel for a 29 inch wheeled bike in “The Sweet Spot”
There has been some loud clamoring for bigger travel 29ers lately, and in some cases, the response has been the development of five, six, and even [...]

Guitar Ted’s thoughts on gearing: Guitar Ted has been talking about lower gearing for 29″ers almost as long as Twenty Nine Inches has been around. Here is his latest piece on the subject.
With the spec that Shimano’s 12-36T cassette is getting on 29″ers these days, there is a lot of chatter about gearing for [...]

All along, single speeding and 29 inch wheeled bikes have seemed to be like “pie and ice cream”, like they just belonged together. Certainly there are reasons for that, but since a preponderance of single speed mountain bikes are 29″ers these days, it has come to my attention that the method of chain tensioning is [...]

Several folks were wondering what the differences were between the Rumblefish 29″er full suspension rig and the HiFi line up, which at first glance seem to be the same bikes with different names. Here I will dissect the two models using the Fisher 2010 catalog I obtained by courier today. Let’s take a look….

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The recent leaks and press releases about 2010 big wheeled bike introductions has largely focused on several carbon fiber wonder bikes. Full suspension and hard tail, single speed and multi-geared, it seems to have become the choice for companies high end models in the coming year. This leaves us with several questions. Durability and [...]