26? no,...29? no,...36?
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Uber-niche! I'm surprised there's not an entire forum dedicated to this on MTBR yet or at least a thread on STW preaching about the benefits of riding a shocking monster like that! Unless you're 20 ft tall what is the point?
FairfaxPat
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Awesome! What size wheels are those-with discs, yet! Also, is there a frame makers name?
Awesome! What size wheels are those-with discs, yet! Also, is there a frame makers name?
Move along...
From February 2007:
7 pages of photos and discussion on the 36er:
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=269746
pete_mcc":4ff7keg2 said:
From February 2007: 7 pages of photos and discussion on the 36er:
http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=269746
Thank god for that, I thought the niche pixies on MTBR had missed that bandwagon to jump on before everyone else had ever been there!
Think this comment from it sums it all up really:
Here we go again...... prophesy!..or is it Dejavu?
Someone comes up with a cool bike based on a bigger than normal wheel size.
Pretty soon a few people will have these and it will be a fringe movement.
Those guys will be really cool for a while, but slowly more of us get 36rs and it becomes a bit less cool and less of a fringe thing. You'll run into other riders on 36rs out on your local trail.
There will be a handfull of small framebuilders who start to specialize in building custom 36rs. A couple small bike or frame companys will make production 36rs.
MTBR will give us our own forum where we can discuss how cool we are and our bikes are. We'll go into great detail with threads planning our 36rs and more threads to roll out our new machines when we finally finish them. We'll whine about our really limited tire selection and why nobody will make us a suspension forks.
One day and insider from Trek or Specialized will post pictures of their companys prototype production 36r here on MTBR. This will really bum some of us out. A few of us will leave to find the next fringe bike movement. Most of us will be consoled when we realize that at least now we'll get some more tires and some good forks.
Can anyone else visualize this scenario?
Think this comment from it sums it all up really:
Here we go again...... prophesy!..or is it Dejavu?
Someone comes up with a cool bike based on a bigger than normal wheel size.
Pretty soon a few people will have these and it will be a fringe movement.
Those guys will be really cool for a while, but slowly more of us get 36rs and it becomes a bit less cool and less of a fringe thing. You'll run into other riders on 36rs out on your local trail.
There will be a handfull of small framebuilders who start to specialize in building custom 36rs. A couple small bike or frame companys will make production 36rs.
MTBR will give us our own forum where we can discuss how cool we are and our bikes are. We'll go into great detail with threads planning our 36rs and more threads to roll out our new machines when we finally finish them. We'll whine about our really limited tire selection and why nobody will make us a suspension forks.
One day and insider from Trek or Specialized will post pictures of their companys prototype production 36r here on MTBR. This will really bum some of us out. A few of us will leave to find the next fringe bike movement. Most of us will be consoled when we realize that at least now we'll get some more tires and some good forks.
Can anyone else visualize this scenario?
