Custom Oak Cycles 650B French Randonneur Project.

650b wheels help prevent toe-overlap with your freakishly short TT I guess. You'll probably be able to get a Colnagoesque wheelbase too for the 'feel faster' bit.

That what I and Ryan agree on, I was on the fence in deciding whether to go with 700c or 650b, but we went for the latter due to the short top tube, plus already been riding with 700c wheels for quite a long time, it's nice to have a different bike than the usual.

Regarding the geo, it'll likely to have a 73 degree seat and head tube, with a lower bottom bracket (265) with a 70mm low trail fork rake (all estimated), the good thing about Ryan is that he already got this sort of thing in mind before I gave him a handful of geometry chart of a typical Rene Herse 650B randonneur bicycle.

Thank Skull, glad you like the idea.

I'm still insisting on not having braze on, it'll strictly be a randonneur bike, even this beautiful Bishop 650B Randonneur bike doesn't have brazed on for a rear rack;