[CR]650 again, still OT

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From: <ABikie@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 09:19:21 EST
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]650 again, still OT

I have always been and will always be of the belief that the 650c size (571mm bead seat) should never have been invented. Someone took the perfectly-good size of 559bead seat (gool ol' 26" that had been around almost a century) tried to re-invent the wheel- making a whell a scant 6mm (three regular spokes side-by-side) larger in radius for some unknown reason. Triathlon? Compact-people? front-of-TT/funny bike? Gimme a break! Why not just make a skinny skin for the 559?

Be that as it may, a close classic-bike friend wound up with a modern 650 bike and wants to get some 650 skins 20-23mm with red theme- stripe, sidewall, etc? any ideas?

Larry black
Mt Airy, Md.