No doubt the MTB bike and parts mfrs are going to push 650B this year...akin to the road bike manufacturers jumping on the 10+ speed cassettes and other changes over the years. It's important to the bike business model to have something new to sell on a continuous basis. It would be a simple thing to wave one's hand and dismiss these "innovations" as so much hype, but here and there you'll find some genuine improvements, applicable to all but the most retro-grouchy and antiquarian types.
One odd thing: even with 650B being barely a niche item (at the moment), it has displaced 26"/559 in many minds because of small but influential players like GP and JH and some of us who discuss it on the Internet. Very often, someone comes in the shop and observes a bike with 559 wheels and asks me if it's 650B. To be sure, they may not comprehend that 26" and 650B are different. But 650B dominates 26" in terms of publicity in certain circles. At the moment, I'm more comfortable with 26", but that could change in 10 years. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/J9tnBD5iB4oJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
