Good one, Steve, and excellent point. If you decide that you don't mind the fact that you can't equip your bike with brakes in 1) then you could work around the too low BB in 2) by running too short cranks. Best of all, run no cranks or BB at all, since you'll probably want your feet on the ground anyway to provide Fred Flintstone braking. You could make it into an adult sized skuut bike! That would be fun!
On Wednesday, August 7, 2013 10:32:36 AM UTC-7, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 08/07/2013 12:53 PM, William wrote: > > You can not run 650B wheels on a 700C Sam Hillborne. The reasons are > threefold > > > 2. Drop. Grant already dialed the frame design of the Hillborne for > 700xfat tires. Among those things that are dialed is the BB drop. Run > smaller diameter wheels, and *your already low BB height will be in true > pedal-scraping territory. * Virtually all recent 700c Rivendells are > lousy candidates for 650B conversion for that reason. The roadier Riv > models of several years ago are good candidates because they were designed > for 700xskinny and have less drop. > > > ...unless you use very short cranks. > > > > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
