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Moving from 26" to 29" - Did you have any difficulties?
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I had been riding off road on my 26" for 15+ years, got a 29" and initially struggled with control. Stacked it 3 times in the first few months on blues!

Did you have any difficulties moving from a 26" to 27.5" or 29"?
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moved from 27.5 to 29 a few years back, handling feels sluggish on 29' compared to 26 and 27.5, always found the 27.5 to be a perfect balance between the two wheel sizes but since now everything is 29 I guess we all gotta learn to ride with it anyway so I made the transition to go for 29. Did you do drills while learning handling on your bike? I did some donuts and dipping the bike while keeping center of gravity and I found it helped me a lot to re learn handling on a new platform, in case you didn't do these maybe revisiting some old trails to relive your early years learning how to ride trails would do the trick
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