Originally Posted by Andrew R Stewart

Bigger is not always better...

As an amateur sometimes historian on bike stuff I frequently think about the hundred+ years of the "safety" bike's existence and that thousands on thousands of smarter then I people have already thought about and tried stuff decades ago, that we rehash as new.

For many riders a 29x3 bike is just too big, a lot of rotational weight and, for smaller bikes, challenged geometry and fit. Andy