Originally Posted by
eyemkeith
I'm not necessarily buying them. But I am interested. I currently have 1.95 tires on my XO, which baaaaaarley fit, but they do. They're nice, but, if I'm honest, a little bit overkill. I've heard good things about 650bs and I'm interested, if I can find a good enough deal on a set of rims. I'm not sure I'm keen on jamming a too big of a hub in the back, though, so maybe not these wheels i'm looking at. You can still fit 47-48mm tires with 650s, no problem. That's plenty big.
I wonder if your brakes will still work with 650b? I imagine you'd need to move the pads up quite a bit?
I found this helpful illustration:
https://www.rodbikes.com/articles/bi...eel-sizes.html
Wheel Sizes