what are you going to do when world runs out of 26 inch rim brake wheels?
>>2040607 (OP)Rejoice. The superior modulation of disc brakes saved me from at least 5 crashes.
At this point I consider rim brakes a safety hazard.
The next big innovation in cycling technology will be bespoke wheel/tire sizes. I'm sick of one size fits all wheels, forks, and chainstays. I am sick and tired of being too big for 650b but too small for 700c. I want my 675bc wheels ffs. Enve has a fundamental moral obligation to team up with Classified and Gravaa to make a bike just for me, with bespoke geometry and wheel size, a 2x wireless IGH that changes tire pressure as I ride, oh and there would be LOOK cranks with infinitely variable length and q factor depending on how stiff I'm feeling that day, and on the fly micro-adjustable-reach brifters so that it works with or without my thick winter gloves, And a micro-dropper post so that when I switch between winter pedals and summer pedals the 2mm stack height difference is accounted for automatically, and Selle Trannica Di2 saddles that could be radio controlled and hooked up to transgender onlyfans whores who could be sposored to use a special internet enabled ball gag to control the remote prosthetic tongue to massage my anus while I'm pedaling to give me extra watts. There would be a smell-o-meter hitched to her nose to provide real-time low-latency feedback of course. I believe these are very reasonable innovations to expect and I look forward to seeing them being made available to consumers by 2026.
>>2040610Why do you consider 650b as too small?
>>2040616To be clear I'm talking about road tires not the 650b + fat tires like the gravel bros are into. And mostly just superstition over actual experience. With new bikes I have usually found myself straddling two sizes, and based on unpleasant surprises in the past, I tend to size up because sizing down gets me into problem areas like not being able to cleanly fit the bottle in the bottle cage, or (mostly in my head) fear of toe strike, things like that. 140+160 rotor asymmetry which isn't a real problem but it irritates me in principle because this isn't a downhill bike so wtf. And maybe other stuff where it makes me think people my size are an afterthought. So I have a conspiracy theory in my head that all popular components are for beanpole freaks and bike standards are designed around that, and the rest of us are just habituated to dealing with the side effects of sub-optimal proportions for the parts.
ryde will make them forever
also you can still buy weird sizes like 700B and every bso still
has 26 inch wheels
>>2040607 (OP)26" is the global wheel size and also the most common wheel size in America because nothing has ever sold like old school MTBs did.
It isn't going anywhere.