According to UPS Tracking, my new-to-me 650B wheelset is scheduled for delivery sometime today. That means I should be able to join this club this weekend!
It's all part of my new Master Plan: Experience It for Yourself! I've grown weary reading about what people think of 650B wheels, low-trail geometry, and a bunch of other issues on the usual-suspects bikey forums; listening to the various arguments and wondering who's right. I've decided that the best way to find out is to form my own opinion based on my own unique experience -- and the only way to accomplish that is just to pony up, buy the stuff, and put some miles on it!
So -- at the risk of accumulating Still More Bike Junk and pissing off my wife -- I'm buying Yet Another Wheelset and (as a separate experiment) Just One More Bike Frame (a Kogswell P/R to check out this low-trail thing) and find out whether I like it or not. It's an educational investment, if you will. Whatever I don't like will get resold and passed on, whatever works well will stick, and hopefully in the process I'll learn a thing or two and I'll also be able to streamline the bike-fleet somewhat.
The results will get posted here.
UPDATE: The wheels have arrived (at my wife's work)! Picking them up tonight hopefully! Velocity Synergy rims (offset rear) laced 32x to 105 8/9spd hubs, shod with Nifty Swifty tires. Brakes will be Riv's Silver (rebadged Tektro R556).
"We are the 650Borg. You will be assimilated."
ReplyDeleteI thought the Kogs was equipped with cantilever bosses - are you putting on the silver's in spite of that or did you get a P/R without them?
ReplyDelete@randall -- The P/R frame and 650B wheels are separate experiments: the wheels are going on my RB-1, while the P/R the 700C version specifically to test low-trail geometry.
ReplyDelete>>"We are the 650Borg. You will be assimilated."
ReplyDeleteNaaaah. Did it. Tried it. Didn't work for me. ; )
That said, Have you gotten your 650b *frame* yet?
@beth -- I'm getting a *700C* Kogswell P/R, not the 650B version.
ReplyDelete