Vietnam was a French colony and the 650B is a French size so I can see how that would be especially since bikes are never thrown away in rural Asia.
Hong Kong and China were never French. Also Hong Kong is a place where people look for the latest techno-glitzyness-gadgety stuff. 650B doesn't fit that image. One of the nicer bike shops refused to work on my Sam because it wasn't a carbon-fibre-dura-ace-indexed-sub 9.5kg-ego-raising-racer-wanna-be machine. They didn't have parts that would fit it and saw no reason to order them for me. Another one asked if the bike more than 30 years old; but he was admiring it. The only shop that will ork with me here is Flying ball and they are too far away from where I live and work. It is just easier to order tires online and have them mailed. Wheels are problematic because they cost a lot to ship. When I went to Shanghai last summer I was really worried about tires and wheels. I kind of wish I had the non-cantilever version Sam because then I might be able to run either 650B-650C or 700c on the frame given the clearance by simply changing out a caliper. Being able to do that would make the bike really versatile but the bosses get in the way of that on the frame I have now. Idiot that I am I didn't think that tire size would be an issue here before I bought the frame On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Lee <leec...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Fai, I was surprised to find a lot of 650B when I was in Hanoi: > > http://tinyurl.com/4p2785t > > Nicole: I think a wider tire would help calm down the twitchy > handling. > > Best, > Lee > San Francisco, CA > > > On Jan 26, 3:50 pm, Fai Mao <i.am.fai....@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't know about Russia. I do know that you can't buy 650b tires in > Asia > > unless you have them imported yourself. If I had it to do over again I'd > > have upped my Sam Hillborne by a size to get the 700c wheel > > -- > 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-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Fai Mao The Blogger who sometimes responds to comments -- 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-bunch@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.
