Stephen's got it. It's not the fork's width that's the issue, it's the distance from the dropouts to the fork crown that limits the size of tire on a Ram.
Mine Ram is a 60, yes it's a 700c bike. The 650b Hetre is just a tad shorter than the 700x28 Ruffy Tuffy, but not much at all. When I switched to the longer Tektros: the front brake was right at the right length all the way down, but it's the rear, because of the angle, that ends up 'a hair' too short still. A little bit of filing, not a lot, in the slot takes care of that. (Note: I did switch to salmon pads, not the original black ones, little bit different profile). The thing that I liked, was that I had it fendered w/ the 32 on the rear (the front was close, so I had a 28 up front); I left the fenders in place, swapped wheelsets, and it fit about right... has a bit more clearance in there, but the fender line was good (at least, good enough for me). I did tweak it a little, but, that was more because... One thing I ended up doing, not related to the swap, but needed to do anyway: My fenders are aluminum ones from VO. I like them, a lot. But, the way the struts mount, is with a single daruma; at slow-speed turns, sometimes my toe would slide down the fender and catch on the daruma. Not bad, didn't cause a wreck or anything, but, was annoying. I noticed the Berthoud struts use a pair of screws/nuts, offset off of the center, and sit much more flush w/ the surface, aren't as proud as the daruma. So, I switched to using a Berthoud strut w/ my VO fender; solved the toe-catch by eliminating the daruma. I've still not trimmed the struts at the dropout, I wanted to make sure I left them long enough to handle the 700c tires, too. But they do need trimming, for appearances sake. http://www.flickr.com/photos/leslie_bright/8351735340/lightbox/ -L On Friday, February 1, 2013 1:40:52 AM UTC-5, Stephen S wrote: > > 700c Rams can be converted to 650b and then you can run the Hetres. The > Tektro 73mm brakes are a little too short though so you can either file > them down for more clearance or use v-brake pads which tend to give you the > range needed. 700x28 and 650x42 are near enough to the same diameter that > you don't have the issues with BB drop and you can mount fenders without > all of the hassle of trying to get them to work with much bigger than 28s > while working with 700c wheels. > > TToshi, who recently posted on the ram/ahh/roadeo differences has done a > conversion recently. He seemed fairly happy with the conversion. I am > planning to take on a conversion on my 56 Rambouillet sometime in the > nearish future. > > On Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:56:51 PM UTC-8, Michael wrote: >> >> Two of you have posted that you have Hetres on Rams. But I thought Rams >> have fork clearance for 35mm wide tire, at most. >> >> And aren't Rams 26" or 700c wheels? >> >> >> > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
