Flash or anyone else in the group; Mick Butler wrote from the U.K. about the use of the word "dropout", referring to a track drpout as a track end, and that referring to it as a dropout may be incorrect. Mick, apologies if I'm interpreting your note incorrectly. Technically speaking, is a track end a dropout or not. CC'd Mick on this one so he can chime in. Maybe Richie or Jim Cunningham may have an answer.
Peter Naiman
Shorewood, WI
> Y'all,
>
> There is a story ... Jack Denny supposedly went to
> the Tottenham library
> and got a latin dictionary and picked out some
> elegant sounding names. I
> do not know where this story comes from; Hugh
> O'Neill mentions it in his
> historical article reprinted at the web site.
>
> Tom is right about Six-Days; they were characterized
> by fluted seat
> tubes (to shorten the wheelbase). They could have
> been fitted with any
> lug set. I would doublecheck with Bob Freeman
> whether his track dropouts
> are original; he had a lot of work done to the
> frame. The rear bridge is
> drilled to take a brake, which would be uncommon for
> a track frame; Bob
> may have had track dropouts retro-fitted to it.
>
> Flash
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