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im - 7/28/2009 01:45:00 PM

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

posted by Brother David Sunshine

A year ago, I purchased some Velocity 650B rims and 40mm-wide Panaracer Fatty Rumpkin tires. The intention was to convert my fixed-gear Pacer (built with Karate Monkey dropouts) to a 650B bike. Well, that never happened. And I'm glad it didn't, because my geared blue Pacer is better suited to use the 650B format. The Pacer fork doesn't accept 40mm-wide tires, so I swapped it with a Steamroller fork. The axle-to-crown height of the Steamer fork is 3mm taller, and the offset decreases by 7mm. The trail measurement changes a bit, but the resulting geometry (61mm of trail) feels just…