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I've just hopped on the 29er wagon with a warranty replacement of my 26er and I have to admit, quite disappointingly, that the 29er is much faster and on my local trails handles all the rough stuff really well, but............ it's nowhere near as fun to ride as the 26er was. The 29er doesn't feel as grippy, but that could in effect be just 'feel'. The 26er also 'feels' faster on the downs, but since I don't really care about those shaved off seconds I'm not really interested in measuring the out and out speed gains and/or losses. The 29er is considerably heavier, 1.1kg with exact replacement wheels (haven for haven) and fork (revelation for revelation), and also considerably more flexy, which may be contributing to the dead feel. Oh, and before anyone complains further about the possible apples and oranges comparison, both frames were current model Intense Spiders, 26 and 29. In my opinion, it's all about what you like, what you want and how you like to ride, it's up to the individual so everybody with some super heavy opinion on what others should like/want/ride needs to just chill out and focus on themselves for a bit. Ride what you want to ride, period. And when it comes time to replace this new 29er I'll be switching back to a 26 inch bike.