> AFAIK, there are forward-facing horizontal drop-outs, and rear-facing > horizontal dropouts.
But then you either have to type in the rather awkward 'forward-facing or rear-facing' descriptive or be completely confusing. The two are quite different. A forward facing horizontal drop out is meant for derailers. Whatever you want to call the rear facing thingy, it is not. On Dec 11, 12:30 pm, newenglandbike <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 11, 12:47 pm, JoelMatthews <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Don't know if many of you folks have seen this yet, but there is a > > > Bombadil frame set for sale on the Bay with HORIZONTAL drop outs! Very > > > interesting. > > > I thought those were called track fork ends. > > > Horizontal dropouts are those such as the Campy 1010 that you find on > > traditional steel road race bikes. > > They look a lot like the drop-outs on my BMX bike, which certainly > aren't 'track fork ends' :) Why call them track-ends here? Plus, > they *are* horizontal, right? AFAIK, there are forward-facing > horizontal drop-outs, and rear-facing horizontal dropouts. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
