New Whip: Plan b Wrap-up
December 29th, 2016 | 27+ | 19 Comments
Pointing to the revolutionary part...
Let me tell you a little tale of a 27.5 Plus bike rider who began to pine a bit for the good old days of ...
Plan B: Mid Term with the 6Fattie
November 15th, 2016 | 27+ | 4 Comments
Big tires...big wheels...bikes on the tailgate...makes your heart beat faster.
After rolling out the New Whip: Plan B here, then the First Impressions here, I have been riding this bike ...
WTB Ranger Plus Tires: First Impressions
September 20th, 2016 | 27.5+ | 6 Comments
The Stache 9 in repose. Big Bear, So Cal backcountry.
We began this here in the opening post.
By JeffJ
I was excited to hear that we would get the chance to ...
New Whip: Plan b – 6Fattie
August 26th, 2016 | 27.5+ | 7 Comments
That is a name that has nearly defined the 'mountain bike' for decades.
It was with no small amount of dismay that I found I had made some errors in ...
On Test: WTB Ranger Plus Tires
August 23rd, 2016 | 27.5+ | 9 Comments
We have On-Test two sets of the new WTB Ranger Plus tire in 27.5x3.0 and in 29x3.0. JeffJ will be running the 29+ version on his Trek Stache 9 on ...
New Whip: What Went Wrong?
July 20th, 2016 | 27.5+ | 17 Comments
Somewhere a few thousand feet above Los Angeles after a good, long climb.
It is not too often that you read someone from the media saying they screwed up; that ...
The New Wave of Trailbikes
May 27th, 2016 | 27.5+ | 7 Comments
That wave is rolling into shore on a tsunami of longer travel, slacker angled, 27+ based wheels/tires (and maybe 29" too) and looks to have no end. It is the ...
New Whip: The Result
April 27th, 2016 | 27.5+ | 6 Comments
So after all the parts were assembled and installed onto the chassis...oh wait...let's look at the chassis just a bit more, since I really did not do much justice to ...