NO. Just no.

Ok.  While I am for just about anything that will advance the 650b wheel size, MBA has, in my mind, made a major gaff in it's attempt to coin the term "Killer B".

Sure, call your "shootout", a thinly veiled ad for KHS, "Killer B", but DO NOT attempt to change what people refer to the size as...there is already a growing debate between 650b and 27.5...we do not need this.

This is from the same folks who used to refer to All Mountain bikes (...or was it Slope-style? ) as "Black Diamond" bikes.  Richard Cunningham is still getting heat on Pinkbike.com for that, even though he claims he had nothing to do with it.

Further more, a magazine that cannot accept the metric system should not have the license to coin terminology.  Whocompares the weights of their tires in ounces?  I admit, there are a few places where standard measure still rule, such as overall bike weight, but for components, shoes, lights, helmets?  C'mon...

So, let's nip this in the bud right here.

It's about time

After someone on mtbr.com referenced a blogger, as if they were an authority, or reliable source of info for anything, I figured maybe I should start a blog.

It is actually something I have contemplated for quite awhile.

I don't know how focused the blog will be, and if it will stay on point with it's title, but if there was one part of mountain biking that I was aligned with, it is the 650b, or as it may be know 27.5, wheel size.

I have been an early adopter and proponent...and like many who chose to do things a little differently, have received a lot of crap.
Things are looking like they may be changing and that it won't be a niche or fringe bike...and then I will be vindicated.  We'll save the "I told you so" posts for later.

Anyway...I am going to try to get out and ride.  The weather is beautiful, and I am another year older.