Originally Posted by lukathonic
why did the road bike world move to 700c?
Actually, it didn't. The "road bike world" was using that size since the 19th century. Dunlop introduced the 630 mm (27 inch) size sometime in the 1950s for marketing reasons, but it never caught on outside of English speaking countries, and in the 1980s it was pretty much abandoned.
Originally Posted by Blue Order
There was no reason to continue manufacturing wheels in different sizes for different markets, and it probably saves the manufacturers money throughout the industry to have one standard size.
Right.
Sheldon "Does Anybody Else Have A Rambouillet With 630 (27 inch) Wheels?" Brown
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