{"id":8331,"date":"2014-09-05T15:52:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T22:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/topangacreekbicycles.com\/blog\/?p=8331"},"modified":"2014-09-05T15:52:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T22:52:02","slug":"jones-just-came-out-with-the-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.topangacreekoutpost.com\/blog\/jones-just-came-out-with-the-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones just came out with the 29 + ."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8332\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8332\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8332\" src=\"http:\/\/topangacreekbicycles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/6239bf65-a5c4-4a80-973c-a48b7f4e22be.jpg\" alt=\"People might try and simplify it \u2013 &quot;it's just a long wheelbase Jones with 29+ tires&quot;, but it isn't. It's so much more. It is NOT slow handling. I've done so much work to make it still ride the way I want a bike to ride. Hours of geometry drawings and thinking. Notes and testing. This is really even more of a \u2018rigid specific geometry\u2019 for a ride that is much more comfortable and stable yet still with quick handling. It is balanced in a way you wouldn't expect. It\u2019s big but feels right. You ride very much in this bike. There\u2019s no roughness, no \u201cI'm gonna crash\u201d sensation or fears. It\u2019s just smooth! And it climbs. If you stand there\u2019s no wheelie. It\u2019s planted. It delivers excellent traction and a huge sweetspot (and I don\u2019t mean the tire contact area  \u2013 I\u2019m talking about the big space for the rider to move around (in the bike) and still have their position, their steering, their weight shifts, the grip and the power transfer all working for them). \" width=\"500\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.topangacreekoutpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/6239bf65-a5c4-4a80-973c-a48b7f4e22be.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.topangacreekoutpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/6239bf65-a5c4-4a80-973c-a48b7f4e22be-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.topangacreekoutpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/6239bf65-a5c4-4a80-973c-a48b7f4e22be-360x500.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People might try and simplify it \u2013 &#8220;it&#8217;s just a long wheelbase Jones with 29+ tires&#8221;, but it isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s so much more. It is NOT slow handling. I&#8217;ve done so much work to make it still ride the way I want a bike to ride. Hours of geometry drawings and thinking. Notes and testing. This is really even more of a \u2018rigid specific geometry\u2019 for a ride that is much more comfortable and stable yet still with quick handling. It is balanced in a way you wouldn&#8217;t expect. It\u2019s big but feels right. You ride very much in this bike. There\u2019s no roughness, no \u201cI&#8217;m gonna crash\u201d sensation or fears. It\u2019s just smooth! And it climbs. If you stand there\u2019s no wheelie. It\u2019s planted. It delivers excellent traction and a huge sweetspot (and I don\u2019t mean the tire contact area \u2013 I\u2019m talking about the big space for the rider to move around (in the bike) and still have their position, their steering, their weight shifts, the grip and the power transfer all working for them).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-variable-budget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topangacreekoutpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topangacreekoutpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topangacreekoutpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topangacreekoutpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topangacreekoutpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.topangacreekoutpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8333,"href":"https:\/\/www.topangacreekoutpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions\/8333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topangacreekoutpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topangacreekoutpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topangacreekoutpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topangacreekoutpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}