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I half agree and disagree here. There is for sure a long term outlook on many
things, such as axles, bottom brackets and headsets. But there are also things
which catch people out as they are not really even industry-lead.
650b was quite a grass-roots movement for some time and it was perhaps an
accidental by-product of the heavy marketing of 29″ which drove the mass
adoption of 650b over 26″.
Since I can't imagine why anyone would want plus size tyres, I'm guessing that
it is an industry-lead thing. Though maybe I'm wrong and in fact there's a
grass-roots movement of riders who wish to ride slower bikes with heavier
tyres and less accurate steering.
April 22, 2015, 4:58 a.m. - Tobias Wildebeast
#!markdown I half agree and disagree here. There is for sure a long term outlook on many things, such as axles, bottom brackets and headsets. But there are also things which catch people out as they are not really even industry-lead. 650b was quite a grass-roots movement for some time and it was perhaps an accidental by-product of the heavy marketing of 29″ which drove the mass adoption of 650b over 26″. Since I can't imagine why anyone would want plus size tyres, I'm guessing that it is an industry-lead thing. Though maybe I'm wrong and in fact there's a grass-roots movement of riders who wish to ride slower bikes with heavier tyres and less accurate steering.