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The range of tyres, rims, frames and number of riders is actually growing. You heard it here first.
Why not use 700c wheels alot easier.
For me it was to run larger tyres and full mudguards on an available road frame.
rubbish braking
It's absolutely fine with my experience of Tektro 559s. In fact just fitting some swissstop blues puts them way ahead of short-drops on standard pads.
miro_o
650b rims with long drop calipers. Somyou want rubbish braking then. 650b is a disc brake rim size now. very few rims about for rim brakes that you can buy in the u.k. in fact there may be none in the u.k. dutch shops and some ammerican stores may have them. 650b was a older size going back a few decades. You cant even get a good selection of road tyres for them. Why not use 700c wheels alot easier.