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

Do you by any chance know the weight?

Tern’s 27.5 folder actually looks pretty cool. Would be great with 1x.

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Has anyone put proper touring / audax distance on big 650b tires?

I'm planning a few 300km plus rides this year and I'm worried the tires will roll too slow/the bike will be too heavy...been looking at Caad 5s again.

Pump em up to road tyre pressures and they’ll roll quick. I did 150 on 700x42s not so long ago and that was no more difficult than on 25s I thought

Caads are sick though

Back rolling on biggies ...

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But those thunderburts are so skinny. Pinched them flat on first ride - sucked. Any suggestions for some lightweight semi knobby rubbers ?

That will be an expensive day if you crash it
flashbacks to @Dick

You running them tubed or tubeless? Burts prefer tubeless and not too low a pressure. I've ridden them for years on/off road even on sharp rocky coastal cliffs for a year and they've held up fine. They are superb tyres, but aren't fit and forget.

I converted my 700c road bike to 650b for audax type riding.

The og 650b bikes were randonneur bikes ... which is basically a french audax. Tyres around 30-42mm.

Has anyone put proper touring / audax distance on big 650b tires?

Audax and touring on 650b, from 38mm to a hefty 50mm.

Much better suited than 700c of similar sizes (especially in term of weight, strength and speed).

Gravel king in 1.9 vs Gravel king sk

Yes tubeless- what pressures you recommend? Round about 84 kg with kit and shoes ...

Can be - I hope for the best.... haha

A little under 300km on Switch Back Hill extralights. A few gravel/singletrack 250kms on ThunderBurt liteskins. Both tubeless orangeseal endurance.

Yes they roll slower than a 700x35 for example. I'm just riding along looking around at things.

I'm about 75kg with a rack back as well, so I hung around the 35psi on sketchy rides and upped them to 40 if there was a lot of tarmac.
I've searched high and low, and still can't find a lighter, faster rolling mixed terrain tyre. WTB's offering by comparison was pathetically slow.

I've searched high and low, and still can't find a lighter, faster rolling mixed terrain tyre.

This is referring to thunder burts? Just to be clear

Does anyone have a 42c tyre (any conditon) for cheaps I can use to check clearances on something? Or even better, worn out/free.

Looking for a lite and supple 650x2.8 XC tyres.
I had some Bomboloni, but they were a bit of a pig.

Anyone got some 650 wheels with 47c tyres on them (WTB Horizons ideally, but anything really) I could check clearance with?

Work in Farringdon, live in Hackney, happy to travel for 'em. Just need to chuck one in my front fork for 30 seconds...

Any recommendations for 650b wheelsets, tubeless ready? Currently looking at Hunt and Just Riding Along traildogs...

I been on a set of DT Swiss 350/XM401s that have been riding really well for nearly two years.

Bonus points - you can take off all the decals!

Tern’s 27.5 folder actually looks pretty cool. Would be great with 1x.

Too bad it's Tern...

They’ve come a long way to be fair. The new wave of Terns are decent.

More than welcome to try with mine,(WTB Horizons), but I work in TW7 and live in KT4 so may not be ideal.