This bike is amazing, I've come from a V4 SC nomad and the Sam² is a beast on the downs and so much fun on the ups.
What are you riding at the moment? What's the reach of your car rent bike?
You can not change the axle position with the 29er wheel. You can either leave in same position with 27.5 wheel and slacken the bike out or flip the chip so it shortens the chain stay and keep the head angle the same as with the 29er wheel.
Well got the new Sam² 6.9 on Thursday afternoon and dam this is some bike. It's everything Rob said it was and some.
So had cushcore fitted f and r and changed brakes to formula cura4 with a 220mm rotor up front as these are what I've been running on my other bikes, Changed the seat out to a...