Gary didn’t invent 29ers—he’s just produced more than anyone else on earth. Fisher started producing 29" wheel bikes over eight years ago, when everyone else thought Gary was nuts. (It’s not the first time that has happened.) But Gary stuck with it. First, because he loves the way a 29er rides. And second, because he knows how 26" wheels became the mountain bike standard—because he was there.

Mountain bikes didn’t adopt the 26" wheel size based on research in physics or structural engineering. Standard mountain bike wheels are 26" because that’s what Gary and his band of friends found while scrounging through the junkyards and thrift stores of Marin Country as they were inventing the sport. The cruiser newspaper-boy bikes of the 40s and 50s that they were turning into mountain bikes came with 26" wheels. And so it went: the mountain bike standard was set.

But Gary has always been very good at questioning standards. 29" wheels are now the fastest-growing segment of the mountain bike world, and for good reason. They’re a blast. And Fisher has a greater understanding of the details and intricacies of larger wheels than any other builder.

It’s classic Fisher.