On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <thill....@gmail.com> wrote: > IMO, you'd gain very little and make the bike potentially dangerous to > ride by doing this conversion. The Hilsen has ample tire and fender > clearance. Not sure you'd improve that in a meaningful way by going to > 650B, assuming you can even find a brake that works. > > The dangerous part relates to the lowered BB. Most of the time pedal > strike is harmless, but if you happen to pedal vigorously through a > corner, you may find yourself being propelled at high speed into the > pavement, more or less head-first. Riv's famously low BBs are about as > low as they should be with the stock wheel sizes. If you do a 650B > conversion that makes the already low BB an inch lower, you're playing > with fire. >
clearly what we need is a parimoto or thereabouts in 700c. I wonder how the schwalbe kojaks compare? -sv -- 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.
