Re: T&C=Town & Country; was [CR]Strange tire size

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Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:49:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: <bikenut@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: T&C=Town & Country; was [CR]Strange tire size
To: freitas1@pacbell.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


The Town & Country came with 26 x 1&1/2 (650B) tyres. They were called Hurricanes...I have several NOS sets of these tyres stashed away for my Town & Country Triple.

Matt Gorski Belmont Shore, CA

7/15/06, Bob Freitas wrote:
>
>>>Today at the "Trips for Kids" swap here in Mill Valley I saw an
>>>interesting tire size on a Schwinn Town and Country tandem(my pick
>>>this year for steal of the show).
>>>It sported 650D tires!! I was expecting 26" the rims were Schwinn any ideas?
>>>
>>
>>
>
>Sure it's not 650B? I know Schwinn did use these on some tandems. They _are_
>"26 inch" but "26 inch" is _not_ a tire/wheel size. It refers to
>one of at least 5 _different_ sizes.
>
>See: http://sheldonbrown.com/26 for the detailed poop on this.
>
>Sheldon "Never Heard Of 650D" Brown