26ers are they dead and buried?
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26ers are they dead and buried?
Postby cranky-1 » Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:01 pm
I ride a roadie around locally to do things like shop and go a couple of suburb's away as well as some real long distance rides.
Anyway I have a pretty nice Giant MTB which I started on a few years before the Road bike. As of last few months I have been doing some pretty heavy duty and distance on my MTB and have become quite fond of it again.
There is a hard Rubbish collection been on in the area and if I had a dollar for each old 26in I saw well. Its to be added that I'm riding a 26 and just would be interested in finding out weather it really is old and dead or do many of you still ride 26in with regularity, I would just like to gauge.
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Re: 26ers are they dead and buried?
Postby Calvin27 » Thu Sep 29, 2016 4:17 pm
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Re: 26ers are they dead and buried?
Postby eldavo » Thu Sep 29, 2016 5:04 pm
Road/racing dominate our market so may be better to think of it as a child size after 12, 16, 18, 20, 24... before 27.5, 28, 29, 27.5 plus, 26 fat, 29 plus. There is a kickstarter for 36er large bloke bikes, unicycles also use them, so variety won't cease, just how people talk about it.
The world is more diverse than our market, use bikes for more than sport where our utility cycling here is a minority within a minority. Asia have smaller size frames, use 26, and those markets greatly outnumber us. We are more like residuals off the USA/UK. The Dutch are larger also and may use 26in for smaller sizes where larger may use 28in.
If you find quality 26in frames it's now retro so if you have space save them, some are part of MTB history. Marin Mountainbike Museum (MMB) is a nice instagram feed.
The fat and plus tyres with wide rims low pressure and easy tubeless have been real change for non-racing offroad recreational access, greater than the previous 29er debate splitting hairs for skinny 29/27.5/26 recreational use.
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Re: 26ers are they dead and buried?
Postby outnabike » Thu Sep 29, 2016 5:46 pm
I reckon the benefits of the smaller tyres com into their own in a lot of departments.
http://www.cyclingabout.com/700c-vs-26- ... r-touring/
Wheel Overlap on Small Frames
A 700c wheel increases the chances of toe overlap compared to the smaller wheel sizes. This is one reason why Surly only offer 700c wheels on their touring bike frames over 56cm. If you are on the smaller size, it makes sense to use 26″ wheels that reduce toe-overlap and the stand-over height of your bike.
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Postby cranky-1 » Thu Sep 29, 2016 6:04 pm
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Re: 26ers are they dead and buried?
Postby Calvin27 » Thu Sep 29, 2016 7:39 pm
Nah just us bigger blokes are known to make a bit more noise when we get a new bike .cranky-1 wrote: all I was hearing for ages was EVERYONE rides 29ers pretty much full stop.
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Re: 26ers are they dead and buried?
Postby trailgumby » Thu Sep 29, 2016 8:37 pm
Then before our trip to Rotorua I thought I'd take the Cannondale Rize 26er rather than trust the carbon bike to airport baggage handlers, so I went to practice on it at Old Man's Valley and found I couldn't ride the thing! Not just the slack head angle and skinny bars were off-putting, but the little wheels seemed to hang up on every rock and root.
If you can fit on a medium frame, you can ride a 29er. Anything smaller, and you might want to look at 650B/27.5
There's almost no new 26er product being released. Read into that what you will.
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Postby Duck! » Thu Sep 29, 2016 9:02 pm
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Re: 26ers are they dead and buried?
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Postby cranky-1 » Fri Sep 30, 2016 3:10 pm
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Re: 26ers are they dead and buried?
Postby Duck! » Fri Sep 30, 2016 9:36 pm
I've had mixed results. On a 66km event course, ridden in consecutive years on 26" & 29" versions of one bike model, I was about 14 minutes quicker on the 29er, but that can just as much be down to better knowing the sequence of the course, cooler weather more conducive to riding well, and possibly just better general fitness. In short, to many other variables to pin the improvement solely on the bike. On another occasion, with exactly the same two bikes, I did a specific comparitive test session, and the 26er won out by a considerable margin.Calvin27 wrote:My times improved with 29 massively, but the 26 is no questions much more fun.
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Re: 26ers are they dead and buried?
Postby piledhigher » Fri Sep 30, 2016 10:59 pm
How long was 650B out in the wilderness for? then all of a sudden it is a legitimate option.Nobody wrote:26ers are dead when they stop making tires for the type of riding you want to do with them. Somehow I think that might be far longer than many realize.
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Re: 26ers are they dead and buried?
Postby bychosis » Sat Oct 01, 2016 8:09 am
I'm still on 26", I've ridden 29 a couple of times and found the 26 more fun. It suits my local riding better, just not riding to/from the trails but that isn't what my bike is really for. Sure, if I had enough proper money to put into a 27.5 I'd probably get one, and maybe a 29 too, but I'm too cheap for that.
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Re: 26ers are they dead and buried?
Postby mikgit » Sat Oct 01, 2016 11:40 am
It' not the tyres I'm worried about...its the rims (cheap stuff no worries, but high end stuff...especially rim brakes...)Nobody wrote:26ers are dead when they stop making tires for the type of riding you want to do with them. Somehow I think that might be far longer than many realize.
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Re: 26ers are they dead and buried?
Postby foo on patrol » Sat Oct 01, 2016 9:10 pm
Really? In what way?danny the boy wrote:I got a 29er maybe 3 years ago which was my first 'real' MTB and never really fully loved it, yeah they roll over stuff easier but they handle like crap. Picked up 650b on Thursday and took it out today, will never go back to 29. If you have a 26, I would be keeping it.
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Re: 26ers are they dead and buried?
Postby hedgehog » Sat Oct 01, 2016 9:49 pm
cheep wheels in this size can be strong,go bigger in overall diameter
and the quality in strength of wheels increases too make just as strong
wheels.the Moore bigger the diameter the Moore better stronger quality
of the wheel components to match 26 inch strength.bassicly 26 inch is in my
opinion a good adult wheel size and cost effective.COST EFFECTIVE,GOOD REASON TO KILL!
please forgive me moderators
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Re: 26ers are they dead and buried?
Postby Duck! » Sun Oct 02, 2016 12:23 am
They have an aversion to corners. As I said earlier, riding a 29er is like trying to drive a bus around a go-kart track.foo on patrol wrote:Really? In what way?danny the boy wrote:I got a 29er maybe 3 years ago which was my first 'real' MTB and never really fully loved it, yeah they roll over stuff easier but they handle like crap. Picked up 650b on Thursday and took it out today, will never go back to 29. If you have a 26, I would be keeping it.
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Re: 26ers are they dead and buried?
Postby bychosis » Sun Oct 02, 2016 7:57 am
The 29er accelerated so much faster, but when it came to the tight twisty bit of the track the 26" turned in a lot quicker. The 29er rolled over stuff better, but the 26" got around it quicker. Despite the 29er probably having lighter wheels and being a full specced up race bike it rolled better, but turned worse.
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