The Trail Ninja, Dan Milner is on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria to ride the punishing route of the Trans Gran Canaria running race. As if riding up, across and over the steep slopes of the island is not adventure enough, the Trail Ninja, Dan Milner, uses this MTB epic as an experiment to see which wheel size - 26, 27.5 or 29 inches - is best for mountain biking. One ring to rule them all? Three days of ultimate enduro riding delivers the result, sort of. All filmed on his GoPro camera.
The only 29" bike I have is my road bike, which I frankly don't even like riding.
honestly, i wish pinkbike would do something like this.. not necessarily with wheel sizing, but with components. like cranks, shocks, forks, frames, etc..
it was a joke.
I think at this point PB is just trolling its readers to get them more page views and argue about wheel size more. The video had nothing to do with wheel size.
I love these vids. I cannot wait to see that one. It should be hilarious.
And what wheel size is better? Im a firm believer that it doesn't mean a damn thing. Biking hard and losing 10 pounds of winter weight and just practicing on the trail will do more for your ride than a wheel size can even dream of achieving.
I KNOW, IM GOING TO DO A TEST OF MY OWN. WHICH WHEEL SIZE IS BETTER. IM GOING TO DO IT AT CORBY SKATE PARK. THAT SHOULD BE INFORMATIVE.
P.S. SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS. MY COMP IS BEING A TARD.
your words not mine.
My argument was that a runnable route is never going to be that much of a test of bike or rider. If you call anything more challenging than a running route "park" then i think you should rethink the trails you ride. Anyway this is all getting a bit argumentative. Sorry. That wasn't my intention. Tbh i had only flicked through the vid and hadn't really picked up on the tounge in cheek attitude of it. I just saw yet another "head to head" test of the different wheel sizes on a trail massively heavily favouring the bigger wheel sizes and jumped straight into defensive troll mode. my bad. Still, I don't really think that called for the "well you must only ride trail centres" retort
Love the video. We have been going there for 20 years, great place. We did a similiar dream trip last year, 7 days, over the top of GC to Agaete, ferry to Tenerife, 2 days in Tenerife (great trails, stayed at the parador), ferry to La Palma....the best island! Uplifts helped here caues it is MASSIVE.
Like you, we had a tiny backpack for the week, sorts, tshirt, flipflogs, creditcard....deadly.
Day 1 in GC - Long and boring, but could not cut out the good stuff
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsAjPUlDBLg&feature=youtu.be
Day 3 in Tenerife - Lava Run
vimeo.com/83858338
Day 5 in La Palma - Best trail in the world on the biggest crator in the world ;-)
vimeo.com/65547700
Joe
It looks like they all [wheel sizes] work. Shocking really with all the buzz around circle size in the bike industry. As long as they keep making them round we should be okay.
I thought your testing was fairly conclusive... it proved that all three wheel sizes rolled down trails! All you really need to know!
There is no best wheel size for mountain biking, and even if there were, I wouldn't trust average riders in a marathon ride to determine it.