On Jun 8, 2012, at 11:13 AM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd say 650B is the first true innovation, if you can call it that, in > mountain bike wheel size. The 559 standard is only standard because that was > the size of the old ballooners favored by the MTB pioneers 30-some years ago, > not because 559 has magical properties. Then somebody thought it was a neat > idea to try to build a mountain bike around another widely available rim > size, 622, rebranding it 29". Now maybe 584 is the best of both worlds? We'll > see. It's interesting. Some of us old duffers may recall Bianchi marketing 700C MTB's in the early 90s to pretty resounding failure. I think that was one of Sky Yeager's babies- good at thinking outside of the usual. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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.
