Joel: I guess you meant to say that you don't like 29" tires? Excuse if I misread.
Here's what I've found after comparing the very light, very short, 24.8"-tall, ~28 mm wide, Elk Pass-shod wheels on my 26" wheel road bikes with the 29.6"-tall, 60 mm-wide tires on my dirt road bike: at least with very light Velocity Blunt SS rims and very, *very* light Schwalbe Big Ones, there is surprisingly less difference than you might expect when accelerating from a standstill; and note: I don't gear down at stops; I stand and torque. Patrick Moore, who has more than once before figured he could just fit a 26" wheel Atlantis -- by preference! -- in ABQ, NM. On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 4:46 PM Joel Stern <jrster...@gmail.com> wrote: > It’s a great looking bike. I don’t like 26” wheels either but love 659b. > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 6:14 PM ☆ Paul ☆ <p...@superplastic.co> wrote: > >> Hi Joel. >> >> It's a 53cm, actually. >> >> I'm 5' 11" with a 34-ish PBH (longer torso). Fits me really well. >> >> I suppose the next size up would have worked as well, I'd just have to >> have used a shorter stem and you'd see less seatpost... but I wanted 650B >> wheels — I dislike fat tires on 29'er wheels, too hard to get moving at a >> stoplight. 😀 >> > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgufgw003QAAyiSqO3a0idu9y9L4vWdGxoQLUZ7_M7VuPA%40mail.gmail.com.
