Mark, if your rims are Alex DM24's you're fine as they are 32mm outer/24mm inner. The only other suitable rims I'm aware of are the Cliffhanger and Ryde Andra 40 and Big Bull. _____________________________
If I get a HillyBike I'd ride it as I ride my 60cm. Bombadil which is mostly on road which ranges from smooth to patch paved asphalt over once gravel roads. I ride 700x50 Big Bens this year and the ride is terrific on the road and the occasional ATV paths I follow around. I wouldn't hesitate to ride 60mm Big Apples or something like that with the HillyBike on road. I wish there was a 60mm Big Ben. There's not a whole lotta such tires above 60mm at this time though. Just because a HillyBike can take 2.8" tires doesn't mean it's a requirement of course, I'm sure a 60mm tire rides great. I get the HillyBike is being marketed as offroad but that's just marketing as to market you gotta start somewhere. That doesn't mean it's limited to that, or by it. It's a BIKE for goodness sake, and one rides a bike wherever one rides it. Hmmm ... I've heard this marketing before ..... oh yes ... *When the Bombadi was introduced it was marketed as a Mountain Bike, over hill 'n dale we go ! *The talk was the same, about chest thumping "stout tubes" (hear the echo of Tarzan here) and how this assists carrying your truckloads of bananas from Costa Rica. I never thought of it anything but a Bicycle that I ride. I'd kind of like both a 59 Susie and a 60 Gus frankly, at least to try. Besides tubing, I don't know if the Susie is smaller scaled Gus in overall dimensions or simply a shorter seat tube. Compared to a Clementine.... oh ask a million people and you get a million different answers. I'd rather have a 64 Clementine in dimensions(long F-C and tall HT) but with a 60cm ST.... which his where the XL/60cm. HillyBike fits in as the front-center is very long and front end very high, at least from the XL demo photos that Riv had for sale. Plus 3 sets of bottle mounts is to me a basic necessity,, Gus yay, Clementine nay. A Clementine complete is great if the parts are what you really want, if not you end up spending much more later. On Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 7:02:22 PM UTC-4, Mark in Beacon wrote: > > I have a bunch of the parts from my Clementine. I am wavering between > getting another Clem L frame and fork and getting one of the Hillies. Other > than taking a bigger tire and the construction method and the tubing > arrangement on top, I wonder how much difference there will be. I would not > be using it exclusively off-road, so it would need to roll nicely on > blacktop--and with today's tire choices that should not be so difficult. > > I guess my question is other than novel look and somewhat fatter tires, > any appreciable differences? And will my first Clem gen Alex rims (650B) be > wide enough for a Hillibike? > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d2dabc38-d449-4ded-8db2-c0e51a401092%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
