All these bikes look great to me! Thanks for posting! On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 6:43:26 PM UTC-8, iamkeith wrote: > > > > 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> > >
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