As you allude to, frame size (aka your size) comes into play here. My PBH is 90 and I ride a 62 cm Hunqapillar on all kids of surfaces, to include rugged single track, bike packing. And that's with Schwalbe Dureme touring tires. I'll be trying out Smart Sams after St. Nick visits. Grin. I love the larger size wheel (vs 26", my only previous experience) as I can roll over most things much more easily. Maneuverability has not been an issue for me. I do not experience the 700 wheels as "settling" at all.
With abandon, Patrick On Saturday, December 21, 2013 7:45:58 AM UTC-7, MobileBill wrote: > > As many have noted on recent posts, 650B appears to be the wheel of choice > now for mountain biking. > So it feels odd to me that the companies that first demonstrated the > usefulness of 650B for mountain biking (Riv and Raw) don't now have a dog > in the hunt. Well, OK, the bomb is available as a custom, but I'd feel > guilty. And Raw continues to produce 650B, but with lightweight frames that > may not be suitable for some of the rougher tougher stuff we'd expect of a > Hunq or a Bombadil. > (My bikes are working bikes: I actually use my bikes to commute and to do > field work in wildlands, but the Saluki and Betty were obviously not > designed for the latter. I imagine it would be nice to have a bike designed > to carry a significant load and handle deep sand and rocky roads and > moderately difficult downhills and long distance travel on pavement. Sort > of like a Hunq or a Bomb.) > Maybe I should get a Hunq, but for my size, the 650B wheels just seem so > much more sensible and fitting and maneuverable, and it's what I'm used to > (on my Saluki and Betty), and the tires are now available in spades. > Your thoughts (or insider knowledge) on whether I should settle for 700 > Hunq, or hold out for Riv or Raw to return to their roots, or look > elsewhere for a (used?) 650B heavy duty bike. > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
