lafont

that was sick. p.s always try and get your bike off the landing or tail when you bail lol

as long as you can keep getting the other wheel sizes yea. and you'd be the best to judge this then since you would have seen the introduction of each wheel size. do you in any way think they would just drop the 26' wheel and stop making them?? because if so that change isn't all that good for the people like myself that aren't all that tall and well really do need that size rim. it would be like all the shoe companies no longer making my size. i'd have to go to small or to big and would never be all the comfortable.

At 6'3" tall, try being under 6 feet lol. im not all that tall and kind of sucks. because I get what your saying and i completely agree. I tried a couple different bikes this year and the 29er was amazing for cross country and I am thinking of grabbing one next year for that exact reason (the longer rides) am i agree 100,000% that they should keep making the 26' wheel. there are trails here i wont hit on the 29er there is no way, to tight and twisty and really steep. tires are just to big to make the turns. and being shorter i find it harder to adjust to a bigger bike. even with 26' wheels if the frame is to big i would have to kind of hop on to the bike at first. so if you toss a 29' wheel on it i wouldn't even be able to get on the bike. hahaha heck my friend is even way shorter then i am and he cant fit on my bighit because its to high and its got a 24' on the back and a 26' on the front. hate to see the 26' to go away poor guy wont be able to ride at all if that happens. so im with you on this one, except the closing statement lol. a big bike feels like a big bike to me. not like a BMX. and i owned a 26' BMX when i was a kid, loved that bike. was the only thing i wanted for Christmas for like 3 years but yea my bighit even my Norco six dont feel the same as when i tried the 29er, was different but in a positive way. i'll still keep my 26' and i will have to wait and see what happens. 'but they will never make me get ride of my 26' wheel never lol' i love it. its so dependable.

I completely understand bringing in bigger bikes that can run bigger size tires and having way more gears to choose from while riding the trails. as we all no as riders especially if you live in a town like mine where you have to find the trails or make them, can get a little rough or even impossible to ride around with a dh bike. I got a 05 bighit I bought off here a few years back and bought a 05 Norco six at the beginning of this summer because of the bighit just being to much, then I got to try the 650b during a demo this summer and was like cutting ice with a hot piece of steel so easy to ride. and so was riding a Devinci 29er the wheel size just goes over pretty much anything. my Norco don't come close to comparing. and the norco is not even all that bad to hike and bike with it just don't climb over logs and as easy. but I did find the 29er really sketchy going down hill and annoying when it came to really tight and narrow sections. anyways my point is, to bring in different kinds and sizes of bikes is alright bring it on, but to cancel out another kind of bike completely. its kind of a big slap in the face kind of move in my opinion. why they cant just introduce a new style bike and keep the older style market going makes no sense at all. it would give them more room to market stuff and get even more kinds of rides out and biking. rather then ignoring the fact that not all people are going to like the newer style bikes. well maybe my dad he's like 6'2 very tall guy but me on the other hand not so tall so the bigger wheeled bikes feel off setting and not as comfortable as the smaller wheeled bikes. all in all im sticking with my 26' tires. it allows me to do all the kind of ridding I like to do.