It all depends on the length of the stays, the length of the dropouts, the size of the tires, and whether or not you use a rear derailleur. All else equal, of course, with a rear derailleur, forward facing dropouts make wheel removal easier. One can argue that forward dropouts allow easier removal of ss wheels, too, all else equal, since as you remove the wheel you are loosening the chain, not tightening it, and you don't have to first remove the chain from the cog.
On my Matthews and on the Fargo it replaced, it's easy to remove 60 mm tires with derailleur and fender from the forward dropouts, but that's because the bikes were designed to allow this -- easier than removing On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Justin, Oakland <justinaug...@gmail.com> wrote: > I definitely think that rear-facing track ends allow easier removal and > installation of fat rubber. In fact I can't see a way in which that isn't > the case unless one is referring to the process with fenders.Which changes > the equation. > > -J > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
