Intense Cycles, long a well respected gravity oriented company, has posted some pictures on the Intense Forum of MTBR.com. The thread, entitled “I did it because I could“, is basically an exercise by company founder Jeff Steber to see what riders will have to say about such a rig in real DH conditions.

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At Interbike I was shown a project that was in the works at Salsa Cycles booth. It was a “fat front” fork. Basically, a 135mmOD spaced fork to hold a wheel from a snow bike, or “fat front”. Popularized by Jeff Jones on some of his titanium 29″er frames, the “fat front” idea is something [...]

One of the big things holding back the development of a 29 inch wheeled DH type rig has always been the 29 inch specific parts necessary to get the job done. In our last post on the subject, we saw that Manitou had come out with a Dorado tweaked for 29″er wheels and Lenz’s new [...]

Niner Bikes has just posted up new information regarding the upgraded 2010 J.E.T.9. The frame will recieve all new forged parts, new hydro-formed tubing and will feature a tapered steer tube.

No word on when the redesigned frame will bow, but it will feature the same geometry and travel for the rear as before. Colors [...]

Today is the start of the Gary Fisher Bikes Press Camp in Park City, Utah. Twenty Nine Inches will be represented there and will be bringing you all the updates from the camp as it goes on through Saturday.

One of the bikes that will be checked out: The new Rumblefish.
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While I wasn’t able to get to Eurobike to check out all the 29″er goodness shown there, we were kindly forwarded some images taken by someone who was there. Taken originally for posting on “Twenty Niner“, a European based website for fans of big wheelers there, this is a small sampling of what was seen [...]