I was glad to see this past Friday in my blog reader that Black Mountain Cycles was busy putting together a bunch of 650b bikes.  Fortunate for all, the Blackbuck 650b was one of the fine steeds. With the Blackbuck comes the WTB Wolverine tires and LaserDisc Trail rim.

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For the past month and a half I’ve been following a slow build up process of a 650b Ebisu All Purpose.  The build up and parts collecting is happening over at Franklyn’s Bike Garage.  This multi-post story line started with Franklyn going to Jitensha Studio and getting sized for a custom bike.  Down the road […]

It’s often that my Google Reader pleeps me of track backs of 650b.com. Most time I comment or email to all that write about 650b.com to thank, give feedback or whatever.
Here’s a cool site that did a short little write up on 650b.com and borrowed some photos.

Stan’s 650b wheel
50b is an intermediate wheel size - […]

From a Haro blog :
After many delays, most of which were far outside of our control, we’re pleased to announce that our first production run of Bealsey 650B bikes are in our warehouses! This is a very small run that consists mostly of 1 x 9’s with a few 20″ SS bikes. The balance of […]

The other morning my blog feeder spit out information about the Aherns full suspension bike that has been in the works for a very long time.
It seems that Mike has teamed up with Devise Solutions to help build his brand and network out.  This has also caused some back time (but long term up time) […]

Could a 5″ full suspension bike really roll like a big wheeled step brother, but handle like it’s smaller older step brother?

Yes! After 4.5 months of logging saddle time on this Ventana El Bastardo I can simply say yes.  From there is the complicated details. I’ve spent some decent time on 5″ travel bikes.  The […]