Jan Heine
> Numerous 650B tires are available. Here are my favorites:
>
> Michelin's current offering is called Megamium, and is all black.
> It's a nice tire. The older Axial Raid isn't available any longer,
> except NOS. These are about 28 mm wide.
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> Michelin, Schwalbe, Vredestein and others also offer some cheaper
> choices intended for city bikes. Nokian makes a "Rollspeed" that
> Europeans like, but I haven't seen it over here.
Gilles Berthoud sells the "Raids" in 650Bx32 for ?22.25 . I use them and like them, nice tan sided with a narrow red stripe between sidewall and thread. He also sells Schwalbes in 37 and 44 mm, all black intended for utility bikes as is the Nokian Rollspeed which is common here in Sweden where 584mm bikes still are in many thousands on the street.
kudos to Jan for the last quarterly, I feel I must have a tandem frame after the old french sizing system, hard to find probably for a pair who is 187 resp 157 cm.
Olof Stroh
Uppsala Sweden