This topic reminded me of my first question to Rivendell. I emailed Jay Ritchey and asked him if the 52 cm Sam Hillborne could be built with 700c wheels so that you could use the frameset as both a 650b fat tire bike and a 700c skinny tire bike. Jay replied that he thought there was enough room but that this was perhaps the most pointless idea ever proposed. Sometime later another Rivendell employee did put 700c wheels on his 650b Hilsen and when Grant put the picture on the Staff Bike page he wrote something like ‘don’t you do this’.
On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 4:55:01 AM UTC-8, Tony DeFilippo wrote: > > If you have them, how often do you take advantage of multiple wheelset's > on a bike? So far in my bike tinkering I have usually been limited by > multiple wheel sizes or rear drop outs to making each build a stand alone, > frame specific function. I have this thought that significant > interchangeability among multiple bikes would be some kind of nirvana... > I'm curious to hear anyone who has it or has at some point had it on > whether you really took advantage of it. > > Right now between 6 active bikes and a tandem (two are my wife's) I have > 27"(1), 26"(2), 700C(2) and 650B(2) wheel sizes and 130/135 OLD > represented, among those 3 or 4 bikes could fit the wheel's off of one > other bike but in practice I'm not doing any wheel swaps as each one is > built up and shod with a tire that matches the frame's intended function > and I don't have any spare wheelset's at present. > > Tony > -- 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.
