David, If you are riding a 61cm Roadini, surely that must be the 65cm Redwood and not the 68 (which I have), I'm thinking. Is there a difference in clearance between the two?
I would like to replicate this setup on my Redwood. However, the lack of a 3rd bottle braze on keeps it as more of a daylight sunny day bike as compared to my 90s custom/road standard, which I use as my hard-core Rando bike. Not that I've been doing many Rando rides the last few years, what with parenting responsibilities catching up to me, but I still feel the need to have a bike in the stable that I feel I can pick up and ride 300, 400 or 600K day or night in all weather conditions. Because who knows when the want will strike me, or at least I like to think it will. Anyway the lack of a 3rd braze on bottle mount is a liability in my mind that keeps the Redwood from being "that bike" that I'm going to pull down off the wall for Rando adventure. But those 650Bx48 tires mounted on your Redwood sure make me take a 2nd look at it. Maybe I should just do a stem mounted water bottle cage or two. -Jim Austin, TX On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 4:48 PM David B <daban...@gmail.com> wrote: > Adam, > For curiosity’s sake, I put 650b wheels in my 61cm Roadini to see what fit > would be with WTB Horizons (47mm). They technically fit, however the > tightest point is fork width - only ~1mm on either side of the tire. Rear > would be fine. My regular setup is 700c with 38mm tires with Shimano brakes > (47-57mm) brake pads near the bottom, guessing around 54mm reach. > So with reach at 54mm for 700c, reach for 650b would be 73mm. So, do-able > for sure, but at the end range for commonly available long reach brakes. > I’d be comfortable with 42mm 650b tires, with narrower than ideal fenders. > For me 38mm 700c and 42mm 650b wouldn’t justify the switch unless I > intended to add fenders. > It’s a little bit of a shame as the Ram/Rom/Redwood had wider fork crowns. > Here’s my Redwood with 47mm 650b: > https://www.instagram.com/p/B_yrQRyl3T6/?igshid=uv3t2cag2s1f > David > River Grove, IL > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a58cc062-ba32-45e0-bfe1-a5cb43b5bb07o%40googlegroups.com > . > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ signature goes here -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CA%2BypmEZ4sdeRK0F%2BSo6x_19EbLW-YVPRQJAyh6AN_2Kxb%3DhKQw%40mail.gmail.com.
