26" Pike with 650b wheel

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This topic has 6 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 8 years ago by lesgrandepotato.

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26" Pike with 650b wheel
Superficial
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I took some pictures and I thought you might wish to see them. 26″ Pike (150mm travel) with a 650b wheel / tyre. I’d call that useable.

Wheel is Sram Rail 50 with a High roller 2 2.35.

More pics
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/tomnelson/IMG_0730_zpsqeh8rpzm.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/tomnelson/IMG_0727_zpscowkg5np.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/tomnelson/IMG_0731_zpsaxvsuq9n.jpg

As an aside, the rear 650B wheel fits comfortably in the (Medium Transition Covert) frame, but does slightly bottom out on the seat tube as shown in the last picture. But then I’m pretty sure the Yeti SB66 does that anyway, so no biggie.

Posted 8 years ago

fr0sty125
Free Member

That’s only good for dry almost no mud clearance, also no chance to fit bigger tyres like Schwalbe or 2.4/2.5 Maxxis.

Posted 8 years ago

nuke
Full Member

Have you let all the air out the fork and compressed it all the way to see if the tyre hits the underside of the crown?

Personally, with the limited tyre choice given the tight clearance, Id prefer to run 26″ with the tyres I wanted

Posted 8 years ago

Superficial
Free Member

Admittedly, I didn’t check for bottom out on the crown. And yes, you would be limited for tyre choice.

I personally think that trying to shoehorn 650b wheels into a 26″ frameset is a mug’s game. But some people want to know this sort of stuff.

Posted 8 years ago

gg14
Free Member

Wow!

Wouldn’t be me..

Posted 8 years ago

br
Free Member

If you pick up a stone in the tread it’ll mark the brace big time, although the 650B version of the Pike has barely any more clearance.

Posted 8 years ago

lesgrandepotato
Full Member

Wouldn’t want to land hard on that!

Posted 8 years ago