In my humble opinion, a Roadeo would be an absolutely lousy 650B conversion candidate. There is WAY too much BB drop on a Roadeo to even consider 650B. A Hilsen/Saluki which is a low BB 650B bike only has 67mm of drop. A Roadeo has 75mm of drop (or more, depending on size). Your cranks and BB will be 8mm lower than the bare minimum that Grant suggests. You'll be scratching your pedals in situations you never have before. Not good. Your BB height would end up at ~250mm when Grant would tell you the safe minimum is 260mm. Try it on almost any other road bike BUT a Rivendell, and it'll likely work out fine.
Bill "I've drawn too many frames with too many wheels on my drafting board thanks to Grant's lessons" Lindsay On Sep 30, 4:44 pm, rperks <perks....@gmail.com> wrote: > I would likely guess that I am not the first one to fit the 650b wheel > into every bike in the garage the first time you get on home and set > up. I was putting together a 650b conversion for the wife's bike and > thought I would grab a few dimensions on all other potential > conversion bikes in the stable while was at it. > > The Roadeo was one of my more interesting canidates. The wheel was > built up with Dyad rims and col de la vie tires that hit the calipers > around 37.5mm or so. you can see a few pics of the front here: > > http://flic.kr/p/8Ff5uMhttp://flic.kr/p/8FieHJhttp://flic.kr/p/8Ff3Zg > > The clearance is tight, 4mm or so, but it fit. Brake reach would be > in the 75mm range. The rear was similar. I would put this in the > possible but why bother catagory. The gain over the Jack Browns while > significant is not that big, and the fender clearance while huge in > the verticle would still be very tight in the width department. > > Now the pile of old Trek frames and even the Eisentraut maybe, but > those are discussions for another forum. > > Rob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
