On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 1:13:30 PM UTC-8, Leslie wrote: > > If you had an older Atlantis that was a 56 or under, ie, a 26"-wheeled > bike, you could use the Paul Motolites and run it as a 650b (if I ever run > across a cheap 56 Atlantis, I'd consider doing such). I wouldn't try to > run a 700c Atlantis as a 650b. > > (Realize, I have to caveat things everytime I open my mouth, but this is > coming from a guy who converted his 700c Ram to 650b Hetres, and then for > awhile borrowed the 700c wheels for the 650b Bomba w/ Motolites, just to > see how it'd be, and it was fine...) >
Well, I believe the original intent of converting a 700c Atlantis to 650b is to get fatter and cushier tires. Tires with more of that new-fanged free air, to paraphrase Grant. Therefore, converting a 26" Atlantis to 650b doesn't make too much sense, especially with the selection of 26" tires we have now (such as the Compass Naches Pass <https://www.compasscycle.com/shop/components/tires/26-inch/compass-26-x-1-8-naches-pass/>). Having stated that, I know that Ron Lau had converted his Joe Stark 26"-wheeled Rivendell to 650b <http://cyclofiend.com/cc/2005/cc006-ronlau0505.html>, and reported good results. Apparently, new brake arms with longer adjustment slots were enough to execute this change. -- 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.
