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Thanks for Bruce Brown for posting on the 29" forum.
It can already be found on the website-under-construction.
http://www.fisherbikes.com/archive/...e=Rig&year=2005
Announced some time ago already, this is the first official picture of it. Not the suspension corrected 3-piece "Switchblade" Bontrager fork and Bontrager SS cranks.
Earlier Fishers got one big critic : too low BB's. Well, they've raised it by almost an inch, to 315mm. For me a chance to put longer cranks on it, and combined with a tall seated seat and old skool 425 Sycros post (yes, a 27.2mm Fisher!) get away with that long seat tube extention ovre the toptube, done for standover clearance my 39+" ineseam obviously doesn't need. The rest of the geometry is the much-lauded Genesis, which turns out oh-so nicely with 29" wheels. Chainstays are a fraction longer, perhaps because of the EBB, and perhaps anticipating the 29x2.35" WTB Epic Wolfs.
Price is rumored to be around $850 complete. A superb ticket to both 29" and singlespeed. If it features some cableguides and derailerhanger, it may prove a non-risk chance to try SS for interested riders on a budget.
It can already be found on the website-under-construction.
http://www.fisherbikes.com/archive/...e=Rig&year=2005
Announced some time ago already, this is the first official picture of it. Not the suspension corrected 3-piece "Switchblade" Bontrager fork and Bontrager SS cranks.
Earlier Fishers got one big critic : too low BB's. Well, they've raised it by almost an inch, to 315mm. For me a chance to put longer cranks on it, and combined with a tall seated seat and old skool 425 Sycros post (yes, a 27.2mm Fisher!) get away with that long seat tube extention ovre the toptube, done for standover clearance my 39+" ineseam obviously doesn't need. The rest of the geometry is the much-lauded Genesis, which turns out oh-so nicely with 29" wheels. Chainstays are a fraction longer, perhaps because of the EBB, and perhaps anticipating the 29x2.35" WTB Epic Wolfs.
Price is rumored to be around $850 complete. A superb ticket to both 29" and singlespeed. If it features some cableguides and derailerhanger, it may prove a non-risk chance to try SS for interested riders on a budget.