Here we go again!!! I'll just add this. (Well, I'll re-add it, since I know I've said it before.)
Fausto Coppi's track bikes used standard, road style, horizontal dropouts. Perhaps not all of them, but if you take a look at some old photos, it will be clear that he did race on the track with horizontal dropouts.
To me, it's surprising that Fausto's imprimatur didn't help
make them popular with track racers ages ago.
Cheers,
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)
> Joe King wrote:
> >Really a very simple reason for track ends they give you a
> greater
> >range of gear ratios than road drop outs I would have
> thought this was
> >self evident to any cyclist?
>
> That is an issue of the length of the slots, not whether they
> open at
> the front or the back.
>
> Sheldon "1010" Brown
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