Originally Posted by
Wildwood
I thought of a useful 650b application for me.
In the summer I regularly ride some of the forest service roads on my rigid mt bike. A long chainstay'd 650b roadie with fatties could do that job and likely be more comfortable than the high BB mtb.
Hmmm, that would seem to be exactly what Jan's been preaching. A bunch of us C&Ver's rode something like that
earlier this year.
Originally Posted by
Bandera
I checked w/ a vendor selling CF 650B MTB clinchers: no brake track, disc use only.
The classic British club rider's frameset like the Internat'l was designed to fit mudguards and seatbag for the club weekend trip on rough country secondary roads and to strip off the mudguards, fit the light sprint (tubulars) and race a time trial the next weekend.
-Bandera
Yeah, looks like you're out of luck with a 650b solution that meets all your needs.
Ah, remembering the usefulness of horizontal dropouts.