I did. (I'm might be one of the ones that you'd ran across in researching....)
I probably should have gone w/ a Hilsen over the Rambouillet, given that I'm not svelte, but, when I was looking at the frames at MSL, that green just was screaming my name. Bought it as a frame, built it up myself. w/ 700c 28's, fenders were fine, but I wanted to run 32's, and didn't have much room. Tried w/ fenders, w/o fenders, w/ 28's, w/ 32s... decided I wanted 32s and fenders, and at my size, had enough tire deformation that it'd rub... I'd gotten a 650b Bombadil, so, one day, messin' around, I'd swapped my 700c wheels onto the Bomba; since I had Motolites, I could just raise the pads and it worked fine. But, I had the 650b wheelset sitting there, decided to try them on the Ram, as all I'd need was a brakeset (I had started w/ the Tektro R538 calipers, switched to R559's)... and, it worked fine. So... I ended up building a dyno wheelset for the Ram, returned the Bomba's wheelset. The thing the conversion did for me, was put me onto a larger tire, as I'm running Hetres; they fit under my fenders w/ clearance, but because they're a 42, I ended up not having issues w/ the BB drop, as a 650b-42 is right there at a 700c-25... and, I'm not so aggressive, I don't pedal through corners anyway... (and, my cranks are 172.5's instead of 175's; 170's might be a bit better). If I was a more reasonable weight, I wouldn't have felt the need to go to a larger tire, would have been happy on the 700c-28's under fenders, or, if I would have been happy w/o fenders, I could have lived fine enough w/ the 700c-32's. Or if I'd had a Hilsen, no prob... But, I can't say I have any reason to regret switching my Ram to 650b, either... I did gain a cushy tire, that's under fenders, and, it became just a bit more unique in the process.... FWIW..... -L On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 1:57:56 PM UTC-4, David Banzer wrote: > > After pondering how to get a decent 650b road bike built up to ride, the > most obvious solution evaded me all week until last night I realized I > should convert my Redwood to 650b and try and fit 42mm tires and fenders. > I think what's kept me from doing this is the 77mm drop, though I did just > fine with a Trek conversion with 72mm drop and traditional pedals. If I run > VP-001s (Thin Gripsters) that's basically makes up for the difference in > drop and eases concerns about pedal strike. > I've checked archives here and there was at least a couple conversions of > a Ram. > I have long reach Tektros, Koolstop thinline brakes, and have no issue > filing brake slots if need be. I believe I have all the necessary parts > needed and it really (hopefully!) will just be an easy swap of brakes and > wheels. > Anyone else converted a Rambouillet/Romulus/Redwood to 650b? Impressions? > Advice? > David > Chicago > -- 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/d/optout.
