Unintentionally stirring the pot

It’s a rainy morning here in southern Arizona, the first in 140+ days so no complaints…

So. My quest to determine which bike is faster for me, the Dos 29er or the Trek Fuel, kicked up a bit of a ruckus in places. The Cyclingnews piece in particular got folks talking, er, yelling? In case you missed it, it’s this one:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/mtb.php?id=news/2006/mar06/mar03mtbnews

Then yesterday g-ted posted a link to bikemag, which features an article on Old Pueblo and the bike test.

http://bikemag.com/features/columns/030806_mike/. Mike Ferrentino doesn’t exactly have a gentle writing style…

It has really baffled me why so many folks get so worked up over my little quest. How many folks are riding 29ers strictly for racing & speed? Very few. It’s as though readers see my test and think it’s a slam against their belief system. Some bring up points that would be valid if I was doing a blanket across the board study…but I am not a research facility!

Entertaining in a “gee this doesn’t make me so proud to be a human” sort of manner. Here’s a random collection of the links I found to MTBR threads concerned with the testing, either directly or indirectly. From initial reactions, to “where’d the love go”, to “I’m outta here”, to “wait a minute, we ride these for fun!”.

Phew! Someone finally got it in the end.

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=170033

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=170202

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=170114

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=170650

This one is about the 96er. Anything 26″ gets attacked here.

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=170773

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=170061

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=171388

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=171890

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=170790

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=170491