On 12/3/2017 5:59 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
In what seems to be perennial efforts to churn the market,
mountain bike designers went from 26" (ISO 559) to the ones
knicknamed 29" (ISO 622, same as 700C) because they claimed
the 26" was too small. Then they soon claimed the 29s were
too big, so they started selling what they called 27.5"
(584, same as 650B), supposedly "just right."

Does anyone know how successful the latter size has become?
Is it a dominant size now? Does it look like it's going to
stick around, or is this likely to become an orphan - as in
"nobody uses that any more"?


No idea.

http://www.bicycleretailer.com/studi...r#.WiSTRUq99PI

As I've mentioned before, in bicycles or any other industry,
success is wholly due to management's intellectual gifts.
Failure has a thousand causes, all external (weather,
commodity prices, regulations, trade flows, The Fed,
politics, rim diameter, BB format and so on)

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