Rode a very leisurely ride this afternoon with Squirrel and some assorted Seattle people. I took two photos.
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My sweetie is making noises about taking bike rides with me, so I dragged The Murray Baja Experience! out from the back room and tuned it up after 5 years of storage. And then I had to take it out for a checkup ride:
This is the ideal 650b bicycle. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks likeā¢.
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what in the fuck
nice rack tho
My sweetie wanted to try cycling, but didnāt want to spend much money and picked the frame (plus a bunch of now-discarded amazingly heavy components) up at a rummage sale for US$5.
Iāve updated it a little bit, but the glory of the original bicycle still shines through.
(Oh, and Hetres suuuuuck compared to basically anything better than Nifty Slothies, but this pair looks good on the finished machine so theyāre gonna stay until my sweetie gets comfortable enough on a bicycle to complain about them.)
They were the OG harbingers of supple life back in the day!
Thatās one thing I never got about the whole PNW supple fat tire 650b fetish ā people running these things at low pressure so that the sidewalls would s-l-i-d-e the rim sideways over the tread at anything more than an omafiets pace, then saying that that is how a tire should ride because fucking BQ said so.
If I jack them up to 50psi, theyāre acceptable, but if I ever take The Murray Baja Experience! out randonneuring, Iām yanking those tires off and using Confreries.
Sorry, what? I donāt speak supple.
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I donāt ever take pictures on long rides, so hereās one from my ride to the coffee shop this morning.
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Too narrow
Are those 32s? I need a supple 38, talk to me.
For singletrack, maybe, but theyāre the most comfortable 650b tire Iāve found for indifferent pavement and packed gravel roads. (Ones are considerably faster on pavement, flat magnets are faster on freshly laid gravel, and I have hopes that Bradenās old Horizons will be more robust on logging road gravel, but the Confreries are the reason why I went back to 650b after being disillusioned with what was available the first time around.)
If Resist ever did a 650x28b Nomad Iād abandon them like a trophy husband, but until the day that happens (probably a few days after I win the lotteryā¢) theyāre my true love 650b-style.
Nominally 32, 33-34 in reality. Flat magnets are what you want (if Panaracer is still making the Pari-Moto in 38mm.)
In this boat, and all Iāve found are GK 38 slicks. May still try them for science because they are like 200g less per tire than Byways.
A little bigger and Runny Arse has the 42 BSPsā¦but overall havenāt found much in between 650x4x and 650x2x.
Do most people just jump back to 700c below 650x42 and run 700x32 or something?
bingo
Orc is the one big man among a handful of little ladies that ride Confrieres in America
Thereās also still a few other 38mm tire options from when that was the standard size, Hetres had fender-fitting problems on plenty of the early bikes. A bunch of the ā38ā tires actually measure 36mm too.
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The 38mm (and 42mm, I guess) Pari-Moto is available at this joint. Not tubeless, of course, so if by supple you mean tubeless itās not applicable.
Yes. 650b fashion in the decadent west is weird.
Have you seen/tried these?
have you guys seen this thread?
https://tarck.cc/t/supple-casings-and-bike-milk-the-tire-thread/
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I think @karl_dandleton may have some experience with these?
@anon71759125 nah, no experience with the grand boiz. a little too leger for me