Interesting. Did Riv think it was a bad idea to swap back and forth because of BB height?
When I tried 650B on my Riv Road, I kept my 700C wheels and short-reach brakes with the intention of being able to swap back and forth between Lierres and Ruffy Tuffy's. It turns out, I love the 650B Lierres and have never swapped back! Now the Phil Rivy/Ruffy Tuffy wheels have found a temporary home on a bike for my daughter. Tim On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:55 PM, redsydude <[email protected]> wrote: > 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’. > -- 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.
