Talked with Teresa today and she said Sherwood is working on a new 650B bike with 4" travel. Looks like I'll be selling my Bastardo 16" frame and White Bros shock to order one. Just gonna wait until they get the final geo numbers and make sure it matches what I want. The Bastardo is a killer bike but mine has 5.5" travel and I live in Michigan and don't need that much travel. Also the curved top tube has really grown on me. Think I am going to set up in either 1 x 9 or the new 1 x 11 setup. Going get the Fox Talas fork to go with it. Pretty excited for the New Year to come to get the final numbers and get one ordered.
Sounds like there's some serious demand for 650B. Interesting how Specialized doesn't have any 650B offerings but Ventana is increasing theirs
Specialized seem to have decided that we all need 29ers or 150+ travel 26ers and then they will select which models your country needs (Being the owner of 2 splesh bikes. I know what I want for my next bike and it aint the big S)
Back to Ventana: I hope this is true! I will be keeping an eye on this. Love the wheel size, but not sure I want or need 5.5 - 6" of travel as is the current rage.
I'm calling mine El Whatever! I'm more concerned that the new pivot locations performance.......I just hope it's a lot better then the old. I just couldn't get rid of the wallow without running high pressure in the air can. BTW, you can name it whatever you want to....just peel of the sticker and place a new sticker on the top tube. The beauty of Ventana.
I'm more concerned that the new pivot locations performance.......I just hope it's a lot better then the old. I just couldn't get rid of the wallow without running high pressure in the air can. a.
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I'm calling mine El Whatever! I'm more concerned that the new pivot locations performance.......I just hope it's a lot better then the old. I just couldn't get rid of the wallow without running high pressure in the air can. BTW, you can name it whatever you want to....just peel of the sticker and place a new sticker on the top tube. The beauty of Ventana.
I am as well. If 650B takes off, I'd like to see them come out with a 650B hardtail too (which is something I'd consider for muddy/winter rides).
There was never a specific named model, but since it was based on the 26" Chiquillo, it came with that sticker. I call it Chiquo.
70 Degree Head angle, 17" Chainstays and 12" BB. PERFECT singletrack shredder.
I've since switched out drivetrains to newer XT bits and the 12-36 9 speed cluster which nets me within 1% of the gear inches of my 11-34 26" 9 speed.
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-Aaron G.
"Before D.W., "anti-squat" was referred to as pedal feedback."
I have been told that you cannot reduce the 2013 FLOAT 34 to less than 150mm, due to some new internals that do not leave enough space for additional spacers (can't find the thread anymore....). It's obviously possible to reduce the travel to 120mm on the 29er F34 but apparently not more than by 10mm on the 26 and perhaps not on the 27.5" version either...
I have been told that you cannot reduce the 2013 FLOAT 34 to less than 150mm, due to some new internals that do not leave enough space for additional spacers (can't find the thread anymore....). It's obviously possible to reduce the travel to 120mm on the 29er F34 but apparently not more than by 10mm on the 26 and perhaps not on the 27.5" version either...
Really? That sucks That was the smartest thing Fox did was allow the internal adjustment of the forks for a decent range of travel.
The ability to change the travel on the X-Fusion forks seems to be very user friendly. I don't have any experience with them though, but they are definitely on my radar.
I only ride bikes to fill the time when I'm not skiing.
The ability to change the travel on the X-Fusion forks seems to be very user friendly. I don't have any experience with them though, but they are definitely on my radar.
See pic above of my Chiquo, that fork as quietly been the best performing Fork in my quiver for three years. If I had money to burn, I'd get a Vengeance for the Bruja.
-Aaron G.
"Before D.W., "anti-squat" was referred to as pedal feedback."
Hopefully Fox will respond with a 100-120mm fork soon.
I built a 650b hardtail at UBI last February. I'm running a 26" Fox fork with 100mm travel. No problems with bottoming out (tire rubbing the fork arch). I'm running a Neo Moto 2.35.
It bugged me when Fox came out with their 650b forks only in the 140-160mm range...then I got over it when I figured out a 26" fork works just fine.
See pic above of my Chiquo, that fork as quietly been the best performing Fork in my quiver for three years. If I had money to burn, I'd get a Vengeance for the Bruja.
I saw that, looks good.
I'm looking at the Slant for my X-5.
I only ride bikes to fill the time when I'm not skiing.
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Originally Posted by Stripes
I'm more concerned that the new pivot locations performance.......I just hope it's a lot better then the old. I just couldn't get rid of the wallow without running high pressure in the air can. BTW, you can name it whatever you want to....just peel of the sticker and place a new sticker on the top tube. The beauty of Ventana.
That was the smartest thing Fox did was allow the internal adjustment of the forks for a decent range of travel.
