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June 2, 2005

  • Long time between updates!  Added links to Steve Palinscar's Saluki and a webpage devoted to Ronald Lau's All-Rounder and Quickbeam conversions.



May 14, 2005

  • Updated the resources page.  Bicycle Specialties is certainly a shop that gets it and Australians now have a source for 650B rims!



May 3, 2005

(Almost a month - what a month!)
  • Added Ray Sachs' Bianchi conversion, Steve Frederick's Saluki and more pictures of Joel's Surly Pacer.



April 7, 2005

  • Added a page for Ronald Lau's Rivendell All Rounder conversion and linked to it from the Conversions page.



April 3, 2005

  • Added pictures of Tim Rangitsch's Saluki and linked to them from the New Purpose Built page.
  • Finally added Cycles Tournesol to the New Purpose Built page.



March 26, 2005

  • The first pictures of a 650B Pacer Project bike added to the Pacer Project page.
  • Added picture of Eric Liu's 650B Ebisu with link from the New Purpose Built page.



March 22, 2005

  • Added Il Vecchio in Seattle to the Shops that Get It list.
  • Added a link to Sheldon Brown's web page concerning 650B conversions of road bikes.



March 16, 2005

  • Recently upgraded the bandwidth of this account to allow for more pictures and stories that will hopefully soon follow.



March 13, 2005

  • Added the 650B Pacer Project page.
  • Updated the format of the shops who get it on the resources page.



March 12, 2005

  • Renamed the Component Suppliers page to 650b Resources and added a "Shops that get it" listing



March 6, 2005

  • Added pictures of Joe Szokoli's orange Saluki



March 5, 2005

  • Added pictures of Olof Stroh's Meral - the bike that started it all



February 28, 2005

  • Updated the information on the converted Jeff Lyon frame to note that it has been converted back to 700c.
  • Added Ron Lau's Quickbeam conversion to the Conversion page and added pictures of it on a page of it's own.
  • Added information regarding the semi-custom Ebisu from Jitensha Studio and a link to pictures of a 650B mixte incarnation.
  • Added pictures of Douglas Brooks' pewter Saluki.  Nice!



February 23, 2005

  • Added a link to pictures and the spec's of Todd Teachout's Saluki to the New Purpose Built page.



Februrary 22, 2005

  • A most interesting update to the New Purpose Built page.  Another stock (or maybe it should be considered semi-stock?) 650B bike is available.



February 18, 2005

  • Corrected an error in the measurements for helping to determine if bikes can be converted (the widest point of the Col de la Vie's should have been 320mm instead of 330mm).  Thanks to Ed Braley for catching this.
  • Added pictures of the Paramount that Frank Knox converted.



February 14, 2005

  • Added link to pictures of John Price's stunning Saluki to the New Purpose Built page.



Feburary 8, 2005

  • Added a pictures of Douglas' Mariposa single speed accessible from the New Purpose Built page
  • Added more pictures of Joel's Surly
  • Removed my classified and added Greg's



February 7, 2005

Lots of updates today:
  • Added a page for Ed Braley's Miyata 712 conversion
  • Added a page for Russ Fitgerald's Mercian Colorado conversion
  • Added some important numbers for determining whether a frame will work for a conversion.  Many thanks to Terry Zmrhal for supplying the measurements!
  • Added a link to Sheldon Brown's IRO conversion.  This one particularly struck me because I consider Sheldon to be not only very knowledgeable with regard to cycling but also generally pretty pragmatic.
  • Added a great quote from Russ Fitzgerald to the User Comments page.
  • Added pictures of a Jeff Lyon frame that Terry Zmrhal converted.
  • Added pictures of Joel Stern's Surly Pacer conversion.



January 20, 2005

  • Changes to the successfully converted bike list.



January 18, 2005

  • List of frames that have been successfully converted added to the Conversions page.
  • List of frames that won't work for conversion or have serious issues when converting added to the Conversion page.
  • Added some more information about measurements that can be checked to see if a frame will work for conversion to the Conversion page.



January 16, 2005

  • Added Ronald Lau's Heron conversion to the Conversions page



January 15, 2004

  • Added picture of Ken Stagg's Heron conversion to the Conversions page.
  • Added a link to Curt Goodrich's 650B Rivendell to the New Purpose Built page.



January 10, 2005

  • Added Dakota Bicycles to the custom builders list on the New Purpose Built page



December 22, 2004

  • Added Old Purpose Built page with links to Ed Braley's Portage.



December 13, 2004

  • Added pictures of Ed Braley's Raleigh Super Course conversion to his conversion page



November 21, 2004

  • Added Jeff Lyon/Lyonsport to the custom builders list.



November 17, 2004

  • Updated the URL and information for Confrérie des 650.



November 16, 2004

  • Added the User comments page.
  • Added the News page for 650B related news that's not directly related to this website.
  • Updated the Conversions page with some information on determining if your bike will work and with acknowledgements of the people who started the conversion ball rolling.
  • Added Bilenky Cycle Works to the custom builders section the New purpose built page after confirming with Stephan that they are happy to build 650B bicycles.



November 15, 2004

  • Added Loose Screws - a source for a couple of different brakes long enough to make conversions work - to the Component Suppliers page.



November 13, 2004

  • Added Phil Brown to the list of custom builders who will build 650B bikes.
  • This page added.
  • Link to Tom Truong's Rivendell conversion.
  • Classified ads page added.




 

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