Re: [CR]History of Campy vertical rear dropouts

(Example: Framebuilders:Rene Herse)

From: "Larry Hakim" <larryhakim@hotmail.com>
To: themaaslands@comcast.net, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]History of Campy vertical rear dropouts
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:42:45 -0500


Steven, thats a beautiful bike but as your ebay description notes the vertical dropouts are uncommon, espeicially, in my experience, on the major Italian builders. Was that Legnano a custom build?

Larry Hakim, Oxford, MS


>From: themaaslands@comcast.net
>To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org (Classic Rendezvous)
>Subject: Re: [CR]History of Campy vertical rear dropouts
>Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:33:55 +0000
>
>Larry asked:
> > Been wondering about this lately as I have them on my Condor, but don't
>ever
> > see them on the classic Italian frames from the 70's. Were these type
> > dropouts developed primarily for the British time trialists' market with
>the
> > short wheelbases some of those frames had?
>
>I recently sold a very Italian Legnano from 1970 with just these lugs. You
>can still see the ebay auction photos at:
>http://ebay.com/<blah>

>

>

>--

>Steven Maasland

>Moorestown, NJ