A 29-Inch Cross (3) to Bear neatly (thinklate’®0s) proponent of 700¢ wheels for off-road use, Willams hasb one ofthe most outspoken and passionate advocates ofbie wheels Founder of Wilts BrandBicycles in Austin, hepersonally buds abit of29er evangelism nto every frameand fork he makes, Willams gave usa'ninerstateof the union, the way only he know'show.~Bill Christensen Why 29-inch? ‘m from the West, an old-school horseman, and yougot three guys standin there and ones ona pony, ones onatallerhorse, and ones ‘onastalion. Who's going to go faster across the prairie: the mule or the long: legged stalion? Even f you'e smallyoudon‘t need to havelt ‘whatare the misconceptions about 23-inch wheels? Mostguysarejust indenal about 2 that they've been wrong. They dont want tospend ny money inchjunk: You know that shits garbage. Peopleare throwing thelr money at al wart toadmit because they already spent iton full suspension 2 technology Even 100 years ago, adults dn ride ‘only little children dd ‘ny not goevenbigger? Like that 36-inch stuf? That'just stupid. (28erisjusttheright size Lookatthehistory books they made 20-Inch wheels inthe 1890s. [And they made 32Inch, but settled ona 700crim, Withall the best engineering minds inthe worl-they dievthavecars, trucks planes, any ofthat other bullshit-this is what they settled on Henry Ford mmadehis frstcarona28:ne '5a25nch rim plus two plus ‘wo.ltsastandard that peoplelost sight of see these guysin these brand new [Ford] F-250s with20-inch wheels, and fawhileback] they were seling tem to us with 17h rims. The pickups with the 17-inch rimslooklike shit and the20-nch oneslook badass, [And thereasonthey ollaver things better is obvious Who do you thinkmade the first29¢r? (Gary) Fisher had (Steve] Potts make him abike ‘Don Cook had his bike and Kent Eriksen had hisbike and these guys ae claiming “rst first."but my regular customers got theirbikesbefore these guys aid So there'sall these disputes going around the vas na ip Ua a Moun i's ike the fox guarding th Iskind of asideineon who needs to get credit for this shit, and Lalways giveit to Bruce Gordon, He was making 700c offroad touring bikes. WeJust all needed tite for them. Bike Hall of Fame trying to invalidate me. henhouse over there.