Checking Out the Sunday Bikes High C 29″—How Does it Compare?

Finally a big BMX-er for the tall rider with a bit of a Klunker vibe. I have been riding this model bike for close to five years and the only change to the Sunday High C since the 2021 came out is the color scheme.. Mine being in billiard green for that year and purple faded was the other option. The 29” wheels with the gearing as it comes just seem to work a touch tall but the bike is fairly light so hills seem to not be an issue for this old guy talking. As one can see the Sunday has the extra guest on the lower frame tube to the head tube. Do not let the pictures fool you as the big 29” wheels make the chain stay tubes and down ward rear tubes look a bit spindly. Those tubes are healthy in real life. I did a small amount of changes on my High C but most were not necessary. I changed the handle bars to the SE Racing Super Big Honking handle bars but really the stock bars are really just fine and my change is almost a waste of money. The High C has only one rear brake but seems more than adequate as the brake works excellent for stopping this 240 pound 🦍 monkey. Probably the Taj only needs one brake as well as it is un needed weight. The Maxxis torch tires probably got that model name because the set sounds like a lit torch once this ride get’s movin and that’s ok because the sound alerts the joggers 240 pounds of something one would not want to meet in a dark alley is au commin therefore no bike bell is needed.🤫 Less weight to add. I could ramble on about this ride about how well I get along with it so it will never be for sale therefore that shortens up all the mumble jumble. The nice chromoly frame / forks along with the big 29” wheels really make it what it is if your looking for a unique affordable little HOT ROD for well under a grand. I’ll only cry about one thing and that is the quick release seat post clamp as it is junk. For most the seat post is fine but is 300mm long so if you are six feet or over you might want to replace the post with a Easton 27.2- 350mm post. That and the handle bar I changed on my ride and later the pedals as most people change peddles as it is a personal thing normally. That’s it. But for most out side of the seat post clamp change the rest of the bike is ready to rain terror down upon the trails the side walks and the skate parks and maybe a little showing off if the ladies are around as with them 29er’s you maybe the Herd Bull 🐂.

Also I almost forgot to mention no longer made but when it comes to a 29” wheeled Klunker that I had for a while was the 2013 Felt Rail 29er Klunker. That sported a two speed coaster kick back hub. Mine was the green with the hefty chrome forks. But Felt made a red and white model that I first saw in a mountain bike test review. It looked good to me so I stumbled on one at a long time bike shop in Marin and snatched it up and became a fan of the two speed. A fun bike my first two speed and first 29” wheeled bike. Found it to do long distance rides easy with the two option’s. Really liked the bike but not being a fan of aluminum frames sold it 3 hrs. after ordering a Transition Klunker about a year after purchasing the Felt Rail. The Felt Rail is worth talking about as it is kind of a radical Klunker and really a good down the fire road slider as the crank sits well below the axles that gives it a low center of gravity but the big wheels keep the ground clearance. If it had a chromoly frame I would have never parted ways with it. Recommended to anyone to type in The 2013 Felt Rail 29”er and check the images though not many as Felt did not make many. Once you see it you’ll get it why it’s worth looking at. Probably most of you out there did not know of this ride. Kind of cool I thought.

Yeh Mike kind of Rad I thought but it still looked or had the vintage miss-teak about it. Almost forgot I had it because at that time I had almost thirty bikes . I kept 21 of them In Mill Valley at my parent’s house in Marin County Ca. Where I would spend two days a week and nine in Hollister California where I spent most my time. I use to take the Felt out at 4: am cross a street and down a short hill and off I’d go down a nicely paved bike path that would two miles latter end up In Sausalito Ca. and on the way if I took a short detour used to meet up with a Coyote that like to run a long side and keep pace from a cross street to the Mill Valley rec. center and then he or she would brake away at the same spot for what ever reason. It used to wait for me every week and if I left on time we would meet. Over time this end up being a weekly race. That was always fun along with almost two Cities that for a few hours I owned as the whole place was asleep 💤 . No cars to deal with no foot traffic so basically I had all of Southern Marin County to my self. The Felt was my first two speed that came in handy racing the Coyote may I add. So why the 4: am ride? If you have a Klunker and you hit the City Streets that are lit up enough to go flat out you can turn the whole place into a free style park doing what ever you want wheelies down the main streets side walks with driveways become a place to catch a little air slides around the base ball diamonds as the local school is closed you own it along with the City of San Francisco in plain view all lit up across the bay. So if you set your Klunker up properly that’s what you do. The right tires like a 50/50 are a must. So back to the Felt it really did it well but one thing I noticed as it was running the early Stermey two speed a 2A is that in thirty and bellow temperatures would not always shift when out in those cold December 4:am rides as the grease in the Stermey hub would become sticky sometimes. All my later model Stermey 2C hubs seem to be improved and really shift like butter all five hubs just work grate. Never the less the Felt gave me the bug to covert many bikes over. So as I’d be sprinting across the empty parking Lot’s for the Golden Gate Ferry on the Felt the Fishing Party boats would motor by as I’d finish up coasting figure eights as the sun began to rise and the the sound of the first commuter bus would pass and that was the signal to get out of Dodge City as the Rat Race was beginning to join in. Time to hit second on the Felt and do the two mile Sprint home take a nap and hit the Marin Trails in the afternoon. Marin County has a ton of places to ride along with lots of scenic bike paths that mostly keep a rider from dealing with auto traffic and China Camp mountain bike trails and Fairfax has trails as well as the Marin Headlands has miles of trails and fire roads where you have views of the Golden Gate all the way down Ocean Beach and on the clear sunny days see the Fairilon
Island about 33 miles west of the gate and the bike path from Mill Valley to Sasualito is just feet away you as you ride along Richardsons Bay / no cars to deal with🤗. A bike friendly County with many bike shops to choose. So the bike hobby can explode rapidly or get out of control. It is not about owning a bunch it’s about the bike experience and the journeys behind each outing and when you look at a bike you have had a while the memories and stories will always be there. Certain bikes your favorites become a old friend. Now living up the Nor Cal. Mendocino Coast the Klunker bike does the job for the average ride with a little stile as you smoke by many pushing to much bike with flat type bars that you only see fifty feet ahead hunch over looking like they are at work. Not for me. A burley balloon tire bike with some pulled back flat track Flanders handle bars is for me taking in the views of the sea birds and the Pacific Ocean with the sight of the Whale migration in the month of March yearly is the ticket five minutes from home for me. A single two or a three speed is all you need I found to do it all on a simple classic retro. Speaking of that how bout the Breezer Repack Klunker🤠 at least finally someone mated some Flat Track Bars on it one less thing to buy to make it right. Looks good but the crank the same as the State Klunker has to go or ride with the proper Allen wrench for the crank arms and a bottle of blue loctite. Out side of that a good option like the color choices – classic. There are pluses and minuses on both the Breezer and the State bike but they are very similar what one has the other does not on both either way you cannot go wrong or just get both as you’ll have it all for a bit over a grand and that will stop ya from over thinking 🤔. Put a new hub on one .