Mathew of Kogswell just passed the stewardship of 650b-based P/R to Longleaf Cycles to focus on the 559mm wheel size. Surly's Long Haul Truckers use 559 for smaller sizes.
I got into cycling late, and have the most experience with 700c and now 650b. For my size (5'10" with 83cm pbh) 650b has hit a sweet spot for me for the types of riding I do--mostly pavement, randonneering, club rides, daily commutes. The big tire manufacturers do make decent slick tires in that size, don't they? I have seen continental road tires in 26", if I recall correctly. Franklyn On Jan 7, 4:19 pm, beth h <periwinkle...@yahoo.com> wrote: > At the end of a lengthy and thoughtful discussion between me and a Riv- > owner who's mad for 650b, his upshot was that there just isn't enough > "passion" (his word), not enough mystique (my word) perhaps, to get > the bike industry excited about making super high-end tires in a 559 > (26" ATB) wheel size, or for that matter, mass-producing a > "sensible" (um, Atlantis-styled) 559-dedicated frameset to garner more > attention and raise something near the level of novel buzz that 650b > has generated. > > After giving this a lot of thought, I find myself wanting to be the > cheerleader for more and better bicycles built around this still- > useful and awesome wheel size. > > True, there are a lot of 20-year-old steel mountain bike frames out > there that can be rebuilt as all-rounder type bikes -- but either > their owners are selling them on ebay for tons of money, or they're > sitting on the frames expecting their cache to increase further > someday. > > As someone with four bikes and three of them built around 559 wheels, > I just feel worried that the love for 559 is going to fade at RBW. > Yes, some Atlantis framesets are still available, but after this it's > unclear what the future of the Atlantis will be (and so far, the > Rivendellians have said little). > > Am I the only one on this list who really, deeply cares about the > future of 559-wheeled bikes? If anyone else out there loves 559 like I > do, write in and say why, and what you hope the future brings for a > Rivendell model built around 559. > Atlantis? > Notlantis? > Feel free to opine. > Beth, considering a jersey design for lovers of this wheel size...
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