650B is all the rage now.  That doesn't mean you can find them in all bike shops or anything, but the "hip" manufacturers are working on bringing it back.  French randoneur.
take it with a grain of salt.

josh



On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Urban Bike Project Wilmington, DE <urbanbikeproject@gmail.com> wrote:
Someone at UBP on Saturday was having big problems changing out some dry rotted tires on a Schwinn MTB/hybrid that had been donated. Come to find out (after repeatedly trying to fit any size decimal or fraction 26" on there) that corrosion on the rim was hiding a little stamped "650B" mark on it.  The cheapest 650B tire on harris is $25 and i'm not sure the bike shop we get our parts from would be any less expensive.  The bike is in great condition other than the tires but $50 is about what we would sell it for.  Should we swap the 650B rims for 26's? I would hate for someone to ruin a tire and have to wait a week for something to get ordered online or at a bike shop.

Here's my question to the group....What do you do with perfectly usable oddball bikes/parts that aren't particularly cool or collectable?  Think the "fancy parts" thread of last year but with solid stuff that sits around gathering dust...

Brian

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