Wheel size speed comparison

[durbanjacques]

Has anyone seen the wheel size article in the December issue of MBUK? They did a comparison over a 7Km trail with similarly spec’d bikes of the same weight and similar geometry. Pretty interesting results overall. The 29er came in first overall (21.23 min), 650b 5 seconds slower (21.28 min) and the 26” 29 seconds slower (23.52) than the 29er. So unless you are serious racer there is not too much in it. The surprise however is how close the 650b’s time is to the 29er’s seeing as the difference size wise between it and the 26” is so small.

[jimmy hardtail]

Hmmm, how many 29ers and 650b bikes are advertised in mbuk? 650b is much closer to 26 than 29 in diameter...

[Ryanpmb]

Pretty isolated point of view if timing was the only aspect they looked at...

[Mr SingleTrack]

This will not end well

[Ispeed_V]

Who cares . I like my 26er and in a year or two we can start a 26er retro thread