Great advice. This whole video, not divided into chapters, is available on youtube.

Both in DH and XC

Nice vid! Some fresh filming/angles there

Love this vid, it captures the genre's atmosphere perfectly! It would be really cool to have a fragment of Resident Evil theme song in it, though ;)

Andy01302, can you even read? Matt76 clearly wrote that he actually HAS ridden some 29ers. You haven't so it's him who has more right to state his opinions. I've ridden a 29er as well and I completely agree with Matt76: 29ers may be good for riders with poor technique because of the feeling of riding "in" instead of "on" the bike. On a 29er all you have to do is hold on and pedal, while on a 26er you have to move your body/weight around to make the bike do what you want. The latter is simply more rewarding for me, why would I bother to go mountainbiking if I didn't have to employ any skill in it? Besides, even the most pro-29er testers usually agree that the more technical and tight the terrain gets, the bigger the advantage of 26es becomes. There's a good reason bigger wheels always were thought to be better for road/cx/recreation than MTB. Now companies finally managed to adapt them to moutainbikes, but this does not make them better yet. It's just a way of convincing you that you need a new bike.

To be honest, this is long before even Johnny T's domination era ;), but I think teamdoa just meant to point out the skills difference, especially that Peaty started his pro DH career on a steel hardtail (or even rigid? probably someone will know better), just like Johnny.