Susan Otcenas
>>Anyone have an opinion on riding 650B road bike for long ish and longer road rides but not touring?
Quite a few of the randonneurs in the Pacific Northwest are riding 650B tires. You won't soon find folks riding farther than randos. I'd recommend you pick up the latest issue of Bicycle Quarterly if you want a concise summary of all the roll-testing they've done on tire width, diameter, pressure, casing and more.
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From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org on behalf of Michael Mann
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 6:10 PM
To: JasonASkelton@yahoo.com
Cc: obra@list.obra.org
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] 650B road bikes?
I've been riding a 650b Ocean Air Cycles Rambler - frames manufactured by Zen fab here in PDX - almost daily since October. My first 650b experience and I'm sold. The ability to ride just about any surface with lower pressure/higher volume tires means you're less beat up over longer distances. Plenty of recent research to disprove the skinny-is-faster mind set. Tire quality and suppleness is more important for speed and rolling resistance, and the selection of really good 650b tires is getting better almost daily, seems like.
And I plan on touring on my Rambler as we'll. it's as close as I've ever been to "one bike to rule them all."
My 2-cents
Mike M
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On Mar 29, 2014, at 5:21 PM, "jasonaskelton@yahoo.com" > wrote:
Anyone have an opinion on riding 650B road bike for long ish and longer road rides but not touring?
Good idea or stick with 700C wheel bike?
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