See Steve's questions above and tripple check dimensions. Unless you have an odd small homer you are not going to find a brake tat will reach and the BB would bee to low for most availible cranks. I may be out to lunch on this but with an existin reach in the 60mm range and 80 mm bb drop you ar looking at all 700c tire options.
Also note that "optimization" is different for everybody Rob On May 24, 5:47 am, JoelMatthews <joelmatth...@mac.com> wrote: > > 1. How much additional brake reach would you need for a 584 conversion, > > and what brakes provide that much? You would, of course, no longer be > > able to use those Silver brakes. > > I think the original Paul Racer brakes would work. > > Not sure about the bottom bracket issue. > > On May 24, 6:19 am, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 23:16 -0700, Brian Hanson wrote: > > > 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 > > > Two things for you to check: > > > 1. How much additional brake reach would you need for a 584 conversion, > > and what brakes provide that much? You would, of course, no longer be > > able to use those Silver brakes. > > > 2. How low is your bottom bracket now, and how much clearance will you > > have left after the conversion? > > > -- > > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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.
