One of their advantages from my perspective is that since you don't have to push the rear wheel forward to facilitate removal, that a rear fender/mudguard can be mounted with equal spacing all the way around. It's horizontal dropouts, especially long ones, that bewilder me.........
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-----Original Message----- From: Rich Rose [mailto:rrose@normandassociates.com] Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 8:43 AM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: RE: [CR]Fw: Ciocc, Cinelli
What exactly is the attraction to vertical rear dropouts? Not just on these otherwise somewhat traditional lugged steel frames, but on bikes in general? The only thing I can think of is faster wheel changes? Yeah, that's what I'm worried about!? Richard (likes mine horizontal) Rose Toledo, Ohio