Re: External-bearing BBs?

On May 14, 5:27 pm, Andre Jute <fiult...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.

32 is a very wide tire for road use. 28mm for a small boned woman like
in the photo is a great choice for an upright, yet speedy city bike.
It should allow for a 35mm wide chromoplast fender to fit quite neatly
if desired.

We don't do much cobble over here.