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Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff, and today Greg and Aaron and I are going to be talking about 29ers.

29ers are back, or maybe they never went away. There are so many mountain bike wheel-sized choices on the market today,, but still the 29er is once again in the spotlight.

So we're going to talk a little bit about the history of 29ers and then talk about what's going on today and how that wheel size is trending.

So first off, I want to ask, when did 29ers first start appearing on the market?

So I learned in a video recently that Gary Fisher was actually experimenting with 29-inch wheels and tires way back in the early 80s,

but they didn't have the supply available that they needed in tires or wheels to support that wheel size.

And 26-inch was primarily chosen based on the parts availability

at the time, which is kind of crazy how we end up with that wheel size. But Fisher has been

pushing 29ers for forever then. And there were a few early attempts to bring 29ers to market

like Bianchi in early 1991 that failed and were eventually pulled. But

according to Wikipedia, the name 29er comes from a bicycle called the two-niner, which was

offered by Fisher back in about 2001. And so he really never gave up on the 29er wheel size.

And then in roughly the mid-2000s-ish, the 29ers start to really pick up steam in the market.

Yeah, you know, like we see with a lot of new wheel sizes, the tires are kind of the last piece to fall into place.

You know, after all, you could weld up a frame and a rigid fork for any wheel size.

You can imagine, but if you don't have tires for it, you're not going to be able to ride it.

So WTV was the first company to mass produce a 29er tire, and that was the Nanoraptor in 1999.

Bike Mag actually just recently did a little brief history write-up of that tire if you want

to check it out on their site. So what about you guys? What was the first 29er that you got?

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