Tweaks
A few months ago an online friend gave me a pair of 650b Stan’s ZTR 355 rims; three months ago I bought a pair of tubeless ready tires to go on these rims; last month another online friend returned a favor (I gave him three Ruffy Tuffy tires) and gave me an old 126mm Shimano 600 freehub; at the start of this month I got enough spokes to lace them together; yesterday I trued the new wheels, mounted the tires, and inflated everything tubelessly.
650×28b, baby!
It’s a lot easier to tubelessly inflate tubeless ready tires on tubeless ready rims than it is to inflate folding bead tires on a conventional rim, and they don’t seem to ride that badly on the really short loop I did this afternoon. Tomorrow I’ll do a quick 100k and see how they feel after they’ve been separating me from the road for a few hours.