The tallboy cuts a whole new swath across the trail bike landscape as a 27 bike it revels in the severe in desert dry conditions the wider tires float above the dust and find oases of grip where standard tires flounder and when the monsoon comes lower tire pressures pull the tallboy through the slickest of root sections like a defender on diff lock in its 29 inch form the tallboys renowned rowdy streak comes to the fore happy at full gas up or down hill the speed and agility of the 29