Originally Posted by
Luken8r
IMO, if youre doing a lot of road riding, this would be a waist. the 29ers are way more on the 100% off road end of the spectrum, basically the entire reason for the 29" tires. if you are going to do mostly street and/or fire road type riding, just get a normal 26" tired bike and save yourself about $500 or something close. the 29 is more for hardcore, techinacal riding
i'm sorry, but you are an idiot. if someone wanted just one bike for on and off road ( which the OP isn't looking for ) the 29er would be perfect... want to know why? 29ers use 700c rims... which means you can easily convert it to a hybrid of sorts and have wayyyy better gearing that your tradintion 26" offerings
back to the original post question: i rode gary fisher excalibur all last season.. it was the 07 model. i had made some changes to it. i took off the reba fork (this year has a Fox !!!) and replaced it with a carbon pace riging fork. i also removed the BB5's in exchange for BB7's (i liek the adjustablility on the BB&'s better. and i ran WTB exiwolf 2.3 int he front with a bontrager jones 2.1 in the back. bike rode very well... the only problem i had was the back end flexed a lot on steep climbs (the tire would rub the front derailleur when i was really torquing it) but i believe that had been fixed... i say go for it. they make awesome completes. my 26" is a GF and i love it.. no problems