To all you 29er's out there!

i'm not having to justify anything. jealous? of what exactly? if i wanted a 29'er i would have one.

as for shit-talk i trust the opinions of KB a shop owner who rides and sells plenty of MTB's (20 years in the business) and people in the mtb press i know talking off record than some born again fixie prick who thinks riding a mtb is what you do along the thames path and a pump track is what they play in gay bars.

I could list plenty of people I consider 'proper mtbers' who all now ride big wheels.
There will always be people who disagree, be they Joe public, or Keith Bontrager...It doesn't make their opinion final, or right.
You seem to be of the opinion that you're either not a 'proper mtber' or not doing 'proper mtbing' unless you have a modern, full suspension, disc braked mtb...and that is bollocks. People that were proper mtbers before suspension came along, didn't stop being so when it did.

Would you consider me 'some born again fixie prick who thinks riding a mtb is what you do along the thames path and a pump track is what they play in gay bars' ? :]