 Well, that's the thing with opinions. They're just opinions 
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 Opinions are like arseholez apparently.
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 Opinions are like arseholez apparently.
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This might be worth a punt.
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 Kona Unit? I snapped mine  (but it wasn't a clown bike)
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 Well, that's the thing with opinions. They're just opinions Well you seem to be making a nice living on yours Mike! What would your reading public think of you if you wrote a prejudiced review of something you had never actually tried yourself?
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 Injecting heroin isn't for me. I have a strong view on it that is in no way based on using it. Sometimes you don't need hands on experience to work out soemthing is going to be a bad experience.
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 Like mine,it hasn't changed my life but I like it all the same.On some terrain it's quicker & on others it's slower than a 26".... Try one - likey it - buy one/no likey it - then don't. But don't just dismiss it cuz it dunt luk right 
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I dismiss it because I like short bikes that are agile and easy to manual. The looks don't bother me. The fact they are often ridden by freaks such as Fisher or TI29er does put me off though. 
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You're just an old stuck in the mud, blinkered and narrow minded. Sat up there in the mountains feeling all smug.
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Not all of that is true DK, I'm in Pau rather than up a mountain this evening.
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 I've been googling pau this morning - was looking to do the etape this year but it's going to be too far to get to
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Injecting heroin isn't for me. I have a strong view on it that is in no way based on using it. Sometimes you don't need hands on experience to work out soemthing is going to be a bad experience. Not a particularly good analogy that one John. I also know that jumping off Beachey Head would more than likely result in my death but I don't need to try it out to prove I am right. I cant't see how a 29er would be any more difficult to manual than a 26 inch wheeled bike it's all down to where the handle bar is in relation to the front wheel. If you take your arguement a step further shouldn't you be riding with 24 inch wheels?
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Nope, it's all down to where your weight is in relation to the rear axle. The higher and further back the axle the harder a bike is to manual. The front of the bike makes less difference but the more weight up front and the further it is from the rear axle the harder it is to lift. I like 24" bikes and perhpas should be riding one - though I've only tried a jump style bike which is easier to manual than an XC bike anyhow. It's the lack of tyre and wheel choice that has put me off. I've got to grips with Stan's rim strips recently having given up on gheto tubeless so 24" is now an option.
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What would your reading public think of you if you wrote a prejudiced review of something you had never actually tried yourself? Not much, I shouldn't think. But we're in the forum now John's right, 29ers are fundamentally harder to manual/wheelie than 26in bikes. Even the latest crop of ultra-short 29ers like the Canfield Nimble 9 don't completely address the issue - you can make the back end as short as you like which helps get your weight behind the rear axle, but you can't get the axle any nearer the ground without making the wheel smaller. The higher up it is, the harder it is to pivot the rest of the bike around it.
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