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 [...]

Here in my final installment on tubeless mountain bike technology and specifically tubeless tire technology for 29 inch wheels, I want to address some areas of concern and where I think the tubeless tire and wheel products of the future can help to make big wheel mountain biking even better.

While Giant made the new XTC-1 [...]

Recently several new technologies have sprouted and together they are changing the 29″er landscape in a big, big hurry. In fact, these new technologies are making such inroads that racers are now showing up to the start lines on 29″ers on the national scene and doing what was unthinkable just a year or so ago: [...]

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 [...]

Back in January we were all dreaming of warmer weather and raging some single track. We were also dreaming about what equipment we might be doing that on. Here is the post where I made some prognostications and gave some thoughts on just where all this 29″er stuff might be headed. Now that we are [...]