SintraFreeride

Greatest male DH of all time! And I agree with Joseph-Kony haven't seen the commitment that Sunn had in a modern DH WC team in a long time. Data loggers, timing ever section of the track, special hubs, special custom BOS suspension, proto-semi tubeless Michelin tires the works! And remember Nico's custom bike when he left Sunn now that was a dream bike! I remember him running a michelin semi slick tire on the rear at one race!

I don't buy this whole 29in is less fun because it makes it easier to do technical sections arguement. If you really believe that crap then don't ride a DH bike or a bike with more travel because it'll make riding those technical sections easier! I have a DH bike and love the fact that it makes it easier to ride technical trails which is why I now ride even more difficult trails! If having 29" wheels would make it even easier without sacrificing agility then I'd get one! If I wanted to make my life extra hard I'd have stayed on my fully rigid hardtail from the early 90s!

new specialized enduro 29 if you do more allmountain/enduro stuff or this for trail riding

sorry meant to say they (the tires) look like the Schwalbe first ride prototypes we saw here on pinkbike a few months ago which looked like a mix between a muddy mary and a dirty dan.

The bike looks sick even if it does remind me of another brand. I am, however, more interested in the prototype tires! They look like the new Hutchinson DZO!

1. I agree that this test is lacking due to disimilar bikes being tested with different geometries. a 62.5º headangle makes a massive difference compared to 64º! As well as the longer wheelbase. Thus many of the characteristics of the 951 evo could be down to the geometry alone and not the wheels. 2. Having said that everyone claiming that these wheels have little to no effect due to the roughly inch difference in diameter is full of crap. If that were true then we could say the same about 180 and 200mm of travel. 20mm isn't much but it does make a difference not as much as say 40mm but still something. 3. As for the MX comparison, how they tested different wheel sizes and settled on 21 and 19/18 inch for the rear rims (not wheel diameter) I think the same should happen with mountainbikes. MX settled on around 28in in diameter, they use a 21, 18, or 19 inch rim with a big tire to achieve this. Mountainbikes with the lack of engine have been going with bigger diameter rims and a smaller tires. A 26in rim is 22.0in (559mm) and with a DH 2.5 tire the diameter comes out to ~27in. Now a 650b wheel with DH tires of the same size will undoubtably comeout closer to 28in and thus closer to the the optimium MX wheel diameter. Now DH bikes have followed MX bikes in many areas, suspension (although not to the point of having 12in of travel), geometry (MX bikes tend to have headangles 62.5-63.5º) and other components so I don't see why they won't with wheels. 4. I'm pretty sure the Hans Damf tires on the Evo are the supergravity ones which in 650b come out to 1000g which isn't far of the 26in tires on the m9! 5. and that's a wrap.