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Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Long Travel 29ers

Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast

Singletracks.com

Sports, Wilderness

4.7574 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It’s been just one year since our last podcast episode about long travel 29ers, and a lot has changed since then! Matt and Jeff talk about some of the latest mountain bikes to go 29er, and speculate on what’s to come.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.3

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0:11.6

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0:15.2

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0:20.1

Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

0:23.2

My name is Jeff, and today Matt and I are going to be talking about long travel 29ers.

0:29.4

29ers are going long.

0:31.0

While the wheel size has been around for more than a decade, now we're finally seeing widespread

0:35.3

availability of long travel bikes with big wheels in this

0:39.4

episode we'll talk about the latest long travel 29er developments and what it means for the

0:44.9

tweener wheel size and actually i was just looking back this is like almost exactly a year

0:51.0

since we first did a podcast episode about 29ers. And at that time, we were just

0:58.0

starting to talk about 29er downhill bikes. But a lot has changed since then. There's been a lot of

1:04.7

new bikes. So let's start off by talking about some of the newest ones. Matt, the Scott Ransom is one that we heard about just a couple weeks ago.

1:15.7

Well, officially like a week ago, but this podcast will be delayed a little bit.

1:20.5

But anyway, the Scott Ransom, that's an enduro bike, right?

1:25.0

Yeah, I was just looking at it yesterday.

1:28.7

And that's a 170-mill travel front and rear 29er or 27.

1:35.6

It looks like also if you wanted to use 27-wheel size still on it.

1:40.6

Yeah, and that one is going to be one of the longer travel. I mean, aside from the downhill

1:45.6

bikes, one of the longer travel 29er bikes that we'll see. One of the things that I thought that was

1:51.2

really interesting is the shock that they're using or like the suspension design. They're calling it

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