Originally Posted by
The Golden Boy
What are the bicycles that are currently being produced based around the 27" wheel size?
Sweet comeback but sorry we were talking about tires not bicycles where Icepick said this: "
There are two road bike sizes that are very similar. 700c is the current road bike standard. Many older bikes like yours came in 27 inch, which is very slightly larger. This size is now obsolete" so in that vein that is the discussion in regards to 27" tires not bicycles being made with 27" wheels.
27" tires were mainly found in the USA and England but not other English speaking countries, and found mostly on low to mid end bikes and rarely on high end bikes. So yes, in most of the World 27" were odd ducks which is why America and England switched to 700c in the mid 80's.