My road bikes have no need of tires fatter than 32 mm (though i'd have crown and bridges positioned for easy and more regular fender placement); hell, I found riding our local roads, even in the bad areas around the fairgrounds, perfectly fine with supple 23s at 80/90, apart from having to be careful over expansion bumps. If the Elk Passes were not available, I'd probably move to 700C because of far wider tire selection. I'd have to be given good reasons to switch to 650B, not that I have any particular animus against that size. But afaik, there are few 32 mm tires in the 650B size. Quality tires being guaranteed -- as long as I have a stock of Elk Passes -- I'm quite happy with 559 wheels for their strength and weight and avoidance of toe overlap with my geometry preferences, and the performance of the EPs on our local pavement and on occasional firm dirt. I can't think of any reason in my circumstances for switching to 650B. I like to have separate road bikes and dirt bikes, given our dirt and pavement conditions, and 42 mm tires fall outside my riding needs, for which 32s or 50 plusses work just fine. Good 32s are wholly sufficient for my pavement riding (in fact, the EPs measure narrow, but they are just fine at 27-29 mm); while 42s are a bit narrow for our sandy dirt as I can tell by following my brother on Cazzaderos in our bosque sand. In fact, if I could find a 450 gram 60 mm 622 tire, I'd choose that for the Matthews over the 50 mm F Fred.
I don't particularly like cantilevers; I find them hard to set up and no better in function than decent single pivots. I'd stick with old school single pivots like the 7400 Dura Aces or higher end Suntour I have now. If I had to change, I'd choose V brakes. On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Justin August <justin.aug...@icloud.com> wrote: > Would you go 650b for more width or 559 for width and smaller radius? > Cantis for clearance or side/center pulls? > > -J > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************************************************** ************** *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the world revolves.) *Carthusian motto *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
