Well thank the lord somebody has finally noticed the Emperor is is the nude...
Put my 2 nephews on one of my early 90s bikes and they poop themselves! They have zero skills and totally rely on the bike to bail them out. I was told my bike was "suicidal and twitchy, tried to chuck them over the bars, but was easy to accelerate on"......so translated into skilled rider speak "you have to think to ride it, steers exactly where you want it and good for technical xc and gets moving faster than a bloody hulking great 29er"..... errrrrrrr..... good, exactly what you need.....so why we selling 29ers again?.....oh yes fashion....everybody want to look like the guys crashing cliffs in Utah.
One nephew a few years back told me he had been learning some new skills and proceeded to try to teach me to "manual"....ok, well lets learn something new as i had never seen that.....
I physically had to stop riding as i was laughing so hard when he proceeded to "put his weight over the back wheel" .....wow....REVOLUTIONARY!
But it sums it up totally....don't bother picking a line, don't move your weight, don't absorb the shock through your elbows and knees, don't worry about obstacles.....
Yes 29ers with mahoosive suspension have their place (serious downhill).... but its not on xc or on tesco car park inho.
