lol. And don't go for campag, 95% of their wheels have campag freehub bodies which will only take a campag cassette, which won't work too well with your shimano stuff... Eric, 26" will be fine, almost... My mtbs wheels are actually taller than my 700c road wheels, so crank strike will be no problem, it'll effectively be the same bike, but with much more squish, at least compared to a thinner tyre, cos by the time you've hit the rim on a 700c wheel, you'd still have quite a bit more distance, so you won't pinch etc. A set of 1.9 (i'm sure they come in 1.6 and 1.9) conti sport contacts will be awesome, very slick but have a tiny bit of a groove on them... Nice and quick. There's nowt wrong with discs if you know how to ride a bike, given you ride trials i'd say you know how to use your fingers. Obviously they're a lot more powerful than rim brakes but you're not exactly gonna send yourself over the bars. Straighten up those bar ends and get rid of the wheel reflectors!