Originally Posted by
Rolla
You will likely love it. When I built my Super Professional with 650x47 it was a game changer. Now that I have four 650b bikes, I doubt I’ll ever build another with 700c.
That said, my two 700c bikes do what they do very well. Variety can be a good thing.
Yeah, I love my Rove ST w 650Bx47, but admittedly I ride it often "like a mountain bike", and I have WTB knobby Senderos on it currently. It's a size 50 and the whole package fits me very well and handles great in the rough stuff. That said my 700cx40 bike
feels "faster" on the smoother stuff.
In any event, I like both. I had just gotten the sense recently from various websites and some bike industry types that 650B for gravel/all road was falling out of favor, after its initial hype from a few years ago.