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waltworks
- Member since Sep 16, 2020
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Park City , Utah - 13 Followers
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waltworks mattbeer's article
Oct 26, 2026 at 21:04
Oct 26, 2026
Trek Isn't Hiding Their 32" Cross-Country Bikes
@theredthread: I ride a lot of steep and technical trails and I'll take the biggest wheels I can get to avoid getting hung up on stuff at the wrong time. Are you riding stuff where you're nosepicking every corner or hopping a lot or something? Because the wheelbases on all modern bikes are crazy long, 32" wheel setups aren't going to be meaningfully longer in most cases.
That's not to say you'd like a 32" wheel setup (both of the bikes in the photos are XC rigs, probably mediocre at steep tech at best) but the criticism seems hard to justify if you're riding around on a 500+mm reach, 64 degree head angle sled like a lot of us.
If you're doing basically bicycle trials/very old school East Coast offcamber walking speed stuff, then I'll certainly concede your point!
waltworks mattbeer's article
Oct 26, 2026 at 19:17
Oct 26, 2026
Trek Isn't Hiding Their 32" Cross-Country Bikes
@Uuno: eventually you run into the bb shell, elevated chainstays or not. That limit is around 430-435mm depending on your exact tire/bb shell.
waltworks mattbeer's article
Oct 26, 2026 at 16:10
Oct 26, 2026
Trek Isn't Hiding Their 32" Cross-Country Bikes
Seat tube lands well forward of the bb, so the effective angle is probably in line with any other normal modern bike.
waltworks mikekazimer's article
Oct 22, 2026 at 21:16
Oct 22, 2026
Throwback Thursday: The Legendary Repack DH Race Turns 50
I missed being born on the day of the first repack by a mere 12 days!
waltworks sarahmoore's article
Sep 22, 2026 at 8:26
Sep 22, 2026
'It's Another Way of Riding' - Filippo Colombo's First Impressions of the Scott Spark 32" Prototype
@hamncheez: Well, that's not good. I've had better (much better) luck. YMMV I guess?
waltworks sarahmoore's article
Sep 19, 2026 at 15:07
Sep 19, 2026
'It's Another Way of Riding' - Filippo Colombo's First Impressions of the Scott Spark 32" Prototype
@Staxton: I’m curious who is downvoting microshift. I mean, your tastes might run to more bling. That’s fine. But if your concern is 14 speed being shoved down your throat, MS is your huckleberry. 10 speed simplicity.
waltworks sarahmoore's article
Sep 19, 2026 at 8:28
Sep 19, 2026
'It's Another Way of Riding' - Filippo Colombo's First Impressions of the Scott Spark 32" Prototype
@mountainsofsussex: micro shift, baby. Plenty of range, reliable, cheap.
waltworks edspratt's article
Sep 13, 2026 at 15:18
Sep 13, 2026
32" Wheels Claim First Title at the 2026 XC Marathon World Championships
@headshot: I think Schwalbe found that 29" was around 1% more efficient than 26" at mountain bike speeds. If you assume a similar 1% improvement (I'm not saying that's the case, just using that number for the sake of argument) then in this very long race, a 32" wheel would save you less than 3 minutes, which in this case would have left the results unchanged (ie, if the 2nd place rider had also been on a 32" and 1% more efficient, they still wouldn't have won)
The better rider is still going to generally win, but if it's even a tiny advantage it will be worthwhile for serious racers, just like optimizing any other piece of equipment.
waltworks Dario-DiGiulio's article
Aug 29, 2026 at 7:19
Aug 29, 2026
Pinkbike Poll: Belt-Drive DH Bikes Have Passed the Test - Will You Buy One?
For a dh bike, who cares? It’s hardly going to get pedaled, the drivetrain is irrelevant.
waltworks mikekazimer's article
Jul 30, 2026 at 12:02
Jul 30, 2026
At What Point Does Mountain Biking Go From Inspiring to Unrelatable?
As an old guy who raced both XC and DH back in the 90s, I can say that the gap has widened enough (and my body/courage have degraded) that I no longer really see any connection between what happens at events like Darkfest or Rampage and what I consider "mountain biking". They look more like gravity-powered supercross or Nitro circus events (that's not a criticism necessarily) and if I had to hazard a guess I'd say at most 1 in 10,000 mountain bikers do anything vaguely similar.
So yeah, those events went from sort of inspiring/semi approachable in the very early days to being just entertainment that happens to feature bikes. They could be doing Rampage on dune buggies or rollerblades or motocross bikes and it would be just as relevant to what I do when I go riding.
