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Old 02-16-21, 02:46 PM
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If you are enjoying riding what you have, keep it.

But if you are wanting to upgrading to something new, you’re not going to find anything 26 inch and new that is considered an upgrade.

While I think that most people over-blow the importance of wheel size, I can’t see any reason one would choose a 26” bike over a 27.5 or 29er at this point unless this was for dirt jumping.

I say this as someone who is still riding a FS 26er as my main MTB. It is a great bike, but I am under no illusions that it is due to the small wheel size, and a 27.5 version of this would be even better.

The discussion around wheel size often gets confused with the discussion around geometry. What makes bikes from 2020 more capable than bikes from 2010 is less the wheel size, than it is the geometry.

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