Re: [CR]Ebay: What's a Gios Compact Drop out for?

Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:42:01 -0400
To: john@os2.dhs.org, Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Ebay: What's a Gios Compact Drop out for?
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At 09:16 AM 7/28/06 -0500, John Thompson wrote:
>Traditional vertical dropouts don't allow for any forward/backward
>adjustment; these allow for a few millimeters adjustment.

But it looks like it's the seatstay angle that's adjustable. The dropout itself is brazed directly to the chainstay.

http://i20.ebayimg.com/06/i/07/d2/96/f8_1.JPG

John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net>
Woodstock, ON Canada