On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 4:49:17 PM UTC-7, Norman Bone wrote: > > Thanks Hugh! > > It looks like 59 was a large as you could go with 26. Catalog says 61, 63 > and 65 went to 700c > > I'm guessing that this particular catalog excerpt was from later in the period of model availability, and reflected a change that occurred at some point. As noted, mine is 60cm and has 26" wheels. And I know of at least one *larger* than mine (assuming 61cm, picture attached below) that also has 26" wheels. Prior to 1999, it may be that this size still fell below the "cutoff" between 26 and 700c, or it may just be the case that nothing larger was ever ordered/built.
I still kind of think that, at first, they were ALL 26" though. Remember that the original reason for using 26" tires was that there were no 700c tires that had enough volume. (Or at least very few.) At some point, that obviously changed. If I'm correct, it looks like the change might have actually happened mid 1999, comparing with Norman's info, and corresponded to a change in builders (Joe Starck, earlier in the year, used 26", and Match, later in the year, used 700c?) Or who knows... maybe there was an option to choose for a short period during the overlap. <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-959jH7PcILI/VsUtE8jblyI/AAAAAAAAARw/weliXUDKx8w/s1600/BigAR.jpg> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
