Originally Posted by
Camilo
From my experience, it's tough to find a tire narrower than 650BX35 - maybe impossible, but I haven't really looked extensively. That's OK for what I am looking for, but as a straight on paved road tire, it's probably on the wide side with 32 or 28 or even 25mm being preferable to a lot of road riders.
That was my point ie 650B starts to make more sense when looking at wider, high volume tires like the Kona the OP was asking about. On a pure road bike it doesn’t really make any sense unless being used on a very small frame.