Benefits of 650b:
Very few people have them. 1 point
Difficult to get rims, tyres, forks, so you can tell everyone how much of a nightmare it was to build your 'steed'. 1 point
Niche-niche-ness. 1 point
Spooky bikes have them in there line up, and Spooky are cool as ****. Lots of points
Haro bikes make them. Not that Haro bikes are cool, but Bob Haro was. More points
Guitar Ted doesn't like them. Lots and lots of points
Makes 29ers, 36ers look so old hat. points, points, points.
So there you go, lots of points which mean nothing, and I bet at SSWC09 there will be loads of 650b riders all trying to out slack each other, or growing beards, or pretending to ride drunk.

I wonder if 650b wheels would fit in a Ragley Blue pig?
I quite fancy a cheap pizza now.

OK, it's the future, the past, the present; it's french, it's american niche, whatever it is, it works for me and it is my future wheel size of choice. Maybe.

Now Sam that is the bar I would be after. I have thought about the Nitto bar, but if you were going to produce such a bar I certainly would be very interested. It is a wonder that no one has done a max width legal drop bar.

Play him off Keyboard cat!

Dowling stoves, the only stove worth buying. You can of course ignore my suggestion, but believe me there is no better stove on the market.

Believe me, it isn’t my mum.

I am thinking it will all be revealed when On-One re-launches it’s new website?

I was hoping that the Tweak Mmm-bop (is it still called that) would be anodized.

I would be very interested in your opinion on these forks, in fact anyones experience of newer Manitou forks. I have been interested in these for a while, but still cautious after horror stories concerning quality control of older forks. I have heard that after a couple of years making them in the USA they are going back to being made in Taiwan again, will this make a difference?

That is a heavy frame, and I’m only a skinny fella. Maybe I should hold out and get an On-One Scandal?

I’m presuming that Lynskey don’t like extended seat-tubes? Will the steel and aluminium ones be different?

I was looking forward to seeing this built up, would be nice to see a good colour picture. What size is it, what’s the standover like, looks very tall.

Firstly I think it looks great and I really, really want one. Secondly are you using a q/r or bolt-on for the rear hub? Thirdly what size is it and how tall are you?