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Old 04-11-18 | 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by fietsbob
In the past Woman bike company founder-designer Georgina Terry mixed wheel sizes to get the top tube length shorter without excessive toe-wheel overlap..

a set of 650B wheels* with disc brakes is certainly possible given your bike has disc brakes..

Sutherlands ; '40-584 will have a radius of 335mm with that 40mm wide tire, to compare with your wheel radius.. [D 622] r=(311 + tire width/height).

the BB will be lower, and the steering trail a little bit less..

* Aka 27.5"
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Thanks. I've seen Georgena's videos about bike design on YouTube several times; I would love to just have a smaller front wheel, but the husbeast thinks it would throw the bike's geometry off. Personally, I still think I'd just need to level the saddle and adjust the handlebars (I'm thinking I need some Jones bars), but I'm fairly ignorant of these things.
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