Re: External-bearing BBs?

On May 14, 8:14 pm, A Muzi <a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Our customer thought "650-B" was just an optional 'serving
> suggestion' :
>
> http://www.yellowjersey.org/kmdg.html

I look at that set of pictures and I think, "Lucky lady," just in
general, to have a bike that someone knowledgeable designed with
passion and built with care for the details, and to have a dealer
willing and capable of making alterations. Then I wonder why the
dealer didn't give her wider tires, say 37mm -- I am horrified every
time I read someone who thinks 32mm is a wide tire... I can't imagine
how people's hands can take the constant vibration.

But is that wheel somehow odd or is it what it seems, a 700c wheel?

Why the devil should customers accept an additional wheel size to the
common 559 and 622? I know why Pacenti and Rivendell did it: for the
commercial advantage of their "own" near-proprietary format, the same
way ****mano tries time and again to establish a proprietary format,
but I agree with the dealers who sold the Bleriot as a loss leader, an
odditiy, and with their customers, who clearly wouldn't pay the full
price (or the dealers would have taken the money and pretended they
were selling tormorrow's bikes).

Andre Jute
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/BICYCLE%20%26%20CYCLING.html