To answer Steve's question of whether I'd pay $60 for a 559 tire: no.
I wouldn't pay $60 for a 700C or 650B or 27" tire either. Bike tires last less than a year on the rear wheel and are basically a disposable commodity. I'll pay up to $25 for a bike tire and even that seems like robbery for such a short service life. I'd pay $60 for a tire for my car but I expect 5-6 years/60,000 miles of service and no flats from that. The Grand Bois tires hold no attraction for me: too expensive, too fragile, don't last long enough. My princesses aren't sensitive enough for those peas.
To answer Steve's question as to whether I'd pay $120 for a nonexistant tire to make up the minimum to get one made: nope. I wouldn't do that for a 700C or 650B or 27" tire either.
I've got the Panaracer Pasela 26 x 1.25 and at 100 psi it's the best 26" tire I've ridden. I feel no need for a "better" tire. Having said that, however, I stand by the gist of my original comment before Steve diverted it off in an odd direction: the market for 559s is several orders of magnitude larger than the market for 650B tires. If someone was looking for a high performance tire to market, it makes far more sense to do that in the 559 space than the 650B space. There's just more people to sell it to.
BTW, sorry about munging the subject. I don't know if it's the server or my mail application that inserts a [RBW] into the subject lines and I try to remove them when responding; I obviously mangled this one.
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