I've converted a 26in Salsa Ala Carte to 650B, and it worked great, mainly because there was an abundance of frame clearance and it used disc brakes.
I HAVE had canti brakes that seemed to have a higher reach than others; whether it had 1.25cm more reach I wonder. This is certainly encouraging to see. Nice job! BB On Friday, March 22, 2013 3:12:34 PM UTC-4, jinxed wrote: > > > YES!! His bike was a big inspiration! The benefit is, Ive ridden 650b and > I know I like it and to me it felt more efficient on the road. If my AR > converts well, gravy...but if not, no biggie. > > On Friday, March 22, 2013 1:04:07 PM UTC-6, Tim McNamara wrote: >> >> Ron Lau did this conversion back during the first wave of 650b >> conversions about 5 years ago. He was very enthusiastic about the outcome, >> which I paid attention to due to having a 1996 A/R with 26ers. At the time >> I was a little unhappy with it, but putting my favorite saddle on that bike >> and Pasela 26 x 1.25s made me happy enough that I never pursued the >> conversion. I think mine would fit 650b x 38s with fenders... >> >> The other reason I did not pursue the conversion was the very low-rake >> fork and concerns about ending up with huge trail, but from Ron's ride >> reports this wasn't very noticeably different. >> >> I think that Ron's bike is still on the 650B conversion site. >> >> >> -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
