On Sunday, December 22, 2013 7:58:34 PM UTC-5, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > There would be a lot more to it than just "lowering the canti-studs". >
If you were wanting to, say, take a 26" Atlantis to 650b (other than using Motolites for Hetres as has been done), then yeah, you might have some clearance issues. Same thing with a lot of the other bikes; doing my Ram, I was very conscientious of keeping the 650b tall enough for not affecting BB-height, etc. (again, going to Hetres). For a 29'er Hunq, it'd have great clearance for your big 650b's. You wouldn't want to run smaller 650b's, because of BB height, etc.. But if you wanted a lugged-steel 650b rigid mountain-bike, wouldn't a Hunq be a great foundation? If you're not going to run anything smaller than Quasi's, what else besides lowering the canti-posts would be needed? You'd have clearance, the brake hangers are the same... just as long as you're not riding 'too small' of a tire (ie, don't run anything smaller than a Hetre), what else wouldn't work? Changing bikes: if you wanted to lower the posts on a 700c Atlantis to get Hetres on there, it'd probably work, but I'd be really cautious about it, to make sure that you were running Hetres or larger, or else more would have to probably change. You would have to pay attention to clearances, too, might not go to huge 2.4 Megamotos (if they'd ever happened), but a Quasi should work there, too. Of course, a 650b Bomba, is already all that. But, since the Bomba has gone custom-price, there's merit in considering one of the other frames with relocated canti-posts. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
