blinkered as to not offer customers that option? why suggest it? Why suggest an obscure and what i consider a duplicitous 650b wheelsize if there's no few/no frames available for the bike shop to sell to customers available on the mass market, only two or three rims and six tires? that does NOT fit my definition of 'viable.'

...and michelin doesn't distribute 584s to NA last time i looked. maybe i'm mistaken, not at the shop today.


584 is not a reinvention of the wheel but the reintroduction of an obscure french tire standard to build a niche market in the USA and satisfy the retrogrouch and haughty desires of the constructuer poseur crowd.