Nope. I have all my MTBs at 29er and 148mm. It's a wonderful thing and I am not messing with that for zero incremental gains \[for my riding needs\]. If I have to buy parts to make an expensive wheelset incompatible with the rest of my bikes for the honour of getting to pay to buy your frame that's a bridge too far given there are many sweet steel hardtails out there.
That said I enjoyed my pre-Super Boost Knollys and I like the idea of supporting a local brand. So if there was a 148mm option I'd buy one. The nice thing with hardtails with sliders is you can offer 135mm QR, 148mm and 157mm options without any major frame re-designs. Not to mention you can adjust CS length for the folks that want longer or shorter and you can run a clean SS setup.
_FWIW - a bunch of my wheels are already adapted from 142mm to 148mm to make them Boost compatible so I can't push them to 157mm. That said I am not interested in 157mm it offers nothing I need and 90% of bikes I am keen on run 148mm so spending money in that small part of the pool doesn't make any sense to me. I didn't mind taking that step from 142mm to 148mm since it was clear the majority of the bike industry was landing on 148mm._
Oct. 19, 2021, 7:57 a.m. - Vik Banerjee
Nope. I have all my MTBs at 29er and 148mm. It's a wonderful thing and I am not messing with that for zero incremental gains \[for my riding needs\]. If I have to buy parts to make an expensive wheelset incompatible with the rest of my bikes for the honour of getting to pay to buy your frame that's a bridge too far given there are many sweet steel hardtails out there. That said I enjoyed my pre-Super Boost Knollys and I like the idea of supporting a local brand. So if there was a 148mm option I'd buy one. The nice thing with hardtails with sliders is you can offer 135mm QR, 148mm and 157mm options without any major frame re-designs. Not to mention you can adjust CS length for the folks that want longer or shorter and you can run a clean SS setup. _FWIW - a bunch of my wheels are already adapted from 142mm to 148mm to make them Boost compatible so I can't push them to 157mm. That said I am not interested in 157mm it offers nothing I need and 90% of bikes I am keen on run 148mm so spending money in that small part of the pool doesn't make any sense to me. I didn't mind taking that step from 142mm to 148mm since it was clear the majority of the bike industry was landing on 148mm._