All The Six Fifty Bees Thread! (650b, 27.5 etc.).

No shit 😉, no just want a good foto of the chainstays to estimate! If he's generous he could maybe pop in a 650b wheel

I believe @PhilPub also has a Kaffenback...

Not me, sorry. Not sure if you're mixing it up with my London Road?

But how about 650b on the London Road, got any insights?

mainly depends on the shape of chainstays, if they are hourglass-ish then maybe not.

I don't have any experience with 650b so not sure what I should be looking for. I currently run Schwalbe Marathon Supreme 32c with SKS Chromoplastic guards with plenty of clearance, and I've heard of others using 35c (and 37c maybe??) with guards, no problem. Not sure if this helps or I could take some measurements...

I was, sorry!

Thanks!

Haven't got a non-plus 650B wheel at the moment, but there's a London Road I can measure tonight.

Look like the chainstay are not hourglass shape, meaning 650b is possible

Here we go, have some undercarriage shots. Looks as though the minimum gap between chainstays after the bulgy bit is ~58mm.

650b disc wheel set, and GB Hetre x 42 tyres, and slime tubes, and spare tubes, and skewers now in for sale section, (well in a few minutes)

Plenty of gaps, you can easily run those new 47mm WTB tyres on that.

Nice - thanks!

Is there a decent 650x48 that's not Compass $$$ and easily available (rules out wtb horizon)... Ideally tubeless ready/compatible, going on blunt ss. No longer commuting so riding is all pleasure, but only for next 3 months... Current Marathon Mondials are way too harsh.

Marathon supreme come in 2" but they always come in narrow ..

600g though... and I guess fairly rigid? Mondials are 780 and the sidewalls might as well be made of wood.

I should just suck up spending £130 on Compass and bodging tubeless again... urgh...

Re-fuse .. again 610g on paper .. WTB horizon?

Just seen the Re-Fuse, did like their 28s for polo a few years ago. Hmm.

Can't get horizon from LBS and they're pretty ugly...

You can get them here: https://www.bike-components.de/en/WTB/Horizon-Road-Plus-TC-Folding-Tyre-2017-Model-p51492/

SBC cycles sells them in London too. https://www.instagram.com/p/BKS98kuD8ch/?taken-by=sbccycles

Schwalbe Big One @andy_k ?

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/mobile/schwalbe-big-one-mtb-tyre-snakeskin/rp-prod143779?gs=1&gclid=CjwKEAjw7ZHABRCTr_DV4_ejvgQSJACr-YcwrxcvKnUVS6xnNM8iM41eV3a_SAto5agPvzoz5YaDlxoCsHzw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Too big :(

Exchange rate isn't worth it/200 miles from London

you want me to buy and ship to you?

Alpkit has them too: https://www.alpkit.com/products/wtb-horizon-tcs-650x47