26-27.5 convertible AM frames

[deletude26]

What AM (full sus) frames do people know of that are convertible between 26 and 27.5, that are designed to do so.

If anyone has personal experience/reviews of any those would also help.

Thanks.

 

[Andrei]

Banshee Rune. Google will get you more results.

 

[deletude26]

The current ones I know of are:
- Banshee Rune
- Banshee Spitfire
- Blackmarket Roam
- Dartmoor Wish Enduro

Does anyone know of others?

 

[simonhaha]

NS Eccentric

 

[deletude26]

Thanks simon, after a full suspension though.

 

[ChopSticks]

http://www.rotorburn.com/forums/sho...vert-to-650b!&highlight=banshee+rune+spitfire

 

[99_FGT]

Intense Tracer
I mean Carbine...

 

[Zac Hinton]

What AM (full sus) frames do people know of that are convertible between 26 and 27.5, that are designed to do so.

If anyone has personal experience/reviews of any those would also help.

Thanks.

Banshee Rune, Dartmoor Wish.

Check out this link to get ghetto:
http://650bpalace.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/650b-from-26-convertable-list.html

 

[No Skid Marks]

Just built two of these for customers. Both chose 650b but they can take 26" happily.
​No brake hoses aren't cut yet.

 

[FLOYD1]

Santa Cruz heckler

 

[JTmofo]

Banshee Spitfire.....
Been building one up over the last few months. I've been riding in between upgrades and every upgrade makes the bike even better.

Super easy to convert from 26 to 27.5 and back again, I even ran the same forks (X-Fusion Vengence HLR) for both set ups.

Rear axel chips also allow geometry adjustment. It's not the lightest rig out there, but with the Vengence and a KS Dropper, mine weighed in at hair under 14kgs.

Climbs well and eats downhill sections. Well worth a look in my opinion.

 

[deletude26]

Good Point JT, tempted to get one, but the only ones I can find are 2,600+, which is a bit out of my budget. (don't want to go to far past 1600).

Where did you buy yours?

 

[No Skid Marks]

Banshee Spitfire.....
Been building one up over the last few months. I've been riding in between upgrades and every upgrade makes the bike even better.

Super easy to convert from 26 to 27.5 and back again, I even ran the same forks (X-Fusion Vengence HLR) for both set ups.

Rear axel chips also allow geometry adjustment. It's not the lightest rig out there, but with the Vengence and a KS Dropper, mine weighed in at hair under 14kgs.

Climbs well and eats downhill sections. Well worth a look in my opinion.

Sub 14kg aint bad with dropper.

 

[Wiffle]

Liteville 301...

 

[JTmofo]

Good Point JT, tempted to get one, but the only ones I can find are 2,600+, which is a bit out of my budget. (don't want to go to far past 1600).

Where did you buy yours?

I bought a fully built bike on 26" wheels from the for sale section on rotorburn. It was a 2013 frame with mediocre components which are being swapped out as I go.

Full build however will be close on $4.5k when finished.

 

[placebo]

Pivot Mach 6. Built up just fine with my old 26 inch wheels and fork. Can also use 650b stuff too.

 

[deletude26]

Pivot Mach 6. Built up just fine with my old 26 inch wheels and fork. Can also use 650b stuff too.

So you just used a 27.5 frame, and put 26 wheels/forks in?

 

[placebo]

Just drops the bottom bracket height by 10mm compared to the 650b setup.

 

[Hellyeah]

I hear that the 26/27.5 combo bikes are designed around one of the
wheel sizes but have the accommodation to allow the other.....psst 26"

Such as the (now) defunct Intense Carbine

 

[placebo]

Intense had the Tracer 2 do it by replacing the rear dropout for one which corrected for the 10mm increase in radius of the 650b wheel.

Same dropout the carbine used now I think of it.