Comparison wheels size 29er

[fletchog]

Is this wheel larger than a 700c? I had a GT years ago with weird size wheels, they where 650c from memory. was actually a great fun bike came with Drop bars with the gear levers on the sides of the road style brake levers.

was a good bike for long fire trails and dirt roads, was wondering if this might have been a forerunner to the current 29" ers?

[pistol]

hey

The 650 is roughly around the 26" size its considered a kids road bike, or even some ladies ride 650's as they are a smaller version of the 700c road wheels

apparenlty you can run some 700c tyres on the 29er's but i havent personaly tryed this as yet but would be intresting to see if it actually works out

[Steve_N]

Is this wheel larger than a 700c? I had a GT years ago with weird size wheels, they where 650c from memory. was actually a great fun bike came with Drop bars with the gear levers on the sides of the road style brake levers.

was a good bike for long fire trails and dirt roads, was wondering if this might have been a forerunner to the current 29" ers?

700c and 29er wheels are essentially the same size, give or take a millimetre or 2. 650c is the road equivalent to a 26" MTB wheel. Sounds to me like you're describing a cyclocross bike of some type, although a lot of triathlon bikes are made with 650c wheels.

I doubt that it would have been a forerunner to current 29ers. 29ers have actually been around for some time however have only recently enjoyed a growth in popularity.

One of the original 29ers was the Diamondback Overdrive and Overdrive Comps, circa 1993 (I think). They came with Panaracer Smoke tyres made specifically for DB.

[Steve_N]

apparenlty you can run some 700c tyres on the 29er's but i havent personaly tryed this as yet but would be intresting to see if it actually works out

Yes, you can run 700c tyres on 29ers. I use Schwalbe Marathon's (700x35c) on my 29er as my commuter tyre during the week and swap out to Maxxis Ignitors or Racing Ralphs on the weekend...

[fletchog]

Memory is kicking in , it was a GT tachyon, Wheels were 700D not sure if many where sold out here.
I used it as a commuter from eltham to the city, It was great fun in flat singletrack and faster on road and the bike tracks than a standard mtb, came with 3 sets of tyres Knobby, semi knob and slicks I used the semi knobs mostly. Was a John Tomac inspired purchase, he did a few races on a Yeti with drop bars many yrs ago.

I did race it once, was a little scarry down steep downhills, my other bike at the time was a fisher CR7.