![]() They also raised the BB and made the bike available in extra small, which is generally not plausible with a 29er due to the larger wheel diameter. The stays lost 11mm from the Pony Rustler and 6mm from the 2019 Horsethief due to the fact that it was designed for 27.5 tires, vs. Fortunately, Salsa designers had the foresight to spec the Rustler with 35mm internal width rims, a relatively versatile wheel size that is perfect for 2.6″ rubber but can also comfortably fit 2.8s or smaller 2.35s.Īnother perk to the Rustler being designed around the the 27.5 wheel size as that they were able to shorten the chainstays considerably. Although the new Rustler can probably clear 27.5 x 3.0″ tires, Salsa states that the Rustler fits 27.5″ tires ranging from 2.3–2.8″. And due to a short bottom bracket, it was pretty much relegated to 3.0″ tires. The former was a relatively short travel bike with 120mm rear travel and 130mm up front. As mentioned, this bike has completely different destiny than that of the Pony Rustler. The all-new Salsa Rustler is built around 27.5 x 2.6″ tires with 130mm of Split Pivot suspension out back and a 150mm fork. Now, the new Spearfish and Horsthief share the same frame, and the 2019 Rustler is its own thing-one wheel size one bike. ![]() Instead of switching wheel sizes on one bike frame, they doubled their efforts for 29ers. Salsa engineers went back to the drawing board with the 2019 Rustler and completely switched this mode of thinking. When a bike is designed for 29″ tires, the bottom bracket height can be too low with 27.5+ tires, and chainstay length suffers as well. But, in reality, there’s a significant difference between the diameter of 29 x 2.35″ tires (the current MTB standard) and 27.5 x 2.8″ (the plus tire standard these days)-about 15mm to be exact. This made some sense at the time, as several bike companies released 29er/27.5+ hybrids. But it was made in the image of the former Horsethief it was kind of an add-on and shared the exact same frame, changing only the chainstay and linkage to go from 29er to 27.5+. When considering the origin of the former Pony Rustler, there was something that was a bit off.
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