Thread: Horizontal Dropouts: Why??
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Old 04-30-22, 07:32 PM
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My take is that in '86, Shimano and Suntour et al, were fervishly design/dancing to find the winning (indexed) drive train so some frame builders took those cues to heart, including a variable axle position in a horizontal dropout.
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