> 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?
> -----
> Larry black
> Mt Airy, Md.
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Just a few generations of wide-spread use and cycling tradition before somebody in the 80´s decided to use a heavy crusier with the obscure bcd of 559 made for ballooners to go fast down some hill.
cheers :-)
Olof Stroh
Uppsala sweden