Recent content by dasher666

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    29ers on the podiums more and more?

    I agree that we're off topic, my point is that most current changes haven't been for change's sake.
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    29ers on the podiums more and more?

    Would you prefer companies not try to improve products? When frame tech improves, components have to catch up and vise versa. Some of the recent new component interfaces (your basic complaint) have been the enablers of some awesome new technologies, but if you really want to run a 26.0 bar on...
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    29ers on the podiums more and more?

    The industry would not be collectively pushing something so different just to make you "need" a new bike, like some evil empire of manufacturers. 29 inch bikes ride pretty awesome done right, and they seem to me to excel in tight, rocky/rooty, steep terrain, and I can't corner on either of my 26...