IMO, you'd gain very little and make the bike potentially dangerous to ride by doing this conversion. The Hilsen has ample tire and fender clearance. Not sure you'd improve that in a meaningful way by going to 650B, assuming you can even find a brake that works.
The dangerous part relates to the lowered BB. Most of the time pedal strike is harmless, but if you happen to pedal vigorously through a corner, you may find yourself being propelled at high speed into the pavement, more or less head-first. Riv's famously low BBs are about as low as they should be with the stock wheel sizes. If you do a 650B conversion that makes the already low BB an inch lower, you're playing with fire. On May 24, 1:16 am, Brian Hanson <stone...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my semi-annual six-month bike makeover (still new to this, folks), I > replaced some worn Jack Brown blues with Pasela 35s under my Honjo 45s > (works, but tight fit), and put my Noodle 46's back on with a Dirt Drop stem > with the new SRAM brake levers. I tried an 8cm Technomic, but it still felt > wrong, so I wanted to push the bars up a bit. > > As I was enjoying my "new" bike, I started thinking about all the 650b > activity on the list, and I'm now wondering if I should try a Homer 700c to > 650b conversion at some point in the future. Has anyone here tried doing > this on a 700c Homer? Mine's a 59cm, and I guess the only reason it would > be interesting is so I could test the Jan Heine sweetspot of 38-42mm 650b > tires instead of going bigger and bigger on the 700c. Plus, I could run > Hetres. Or Pari-Motos. Cool. > > One note - I love the Silver brakes. Easy as pie to adjust, and never > squealed once for me. I've changed bars on this bike 3 times so far, and > replaced the cables a few times - not one issue. One guy's experience... > > Brian > Seattle > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
