Angled dropouts allow the rear rim to track the brake pad as you move the wheel back and forth in the dropouts. The upshot of this is that if you are performing manual gear changes (for instance, a 42t ring up front, and a 16/18 White Industries dos cog in the rear), you can change gears (by moving the wheel in the dropout) and the brakes will still hit the rim.
If the slot is horizontal, the brake pads will lose contact with the rim as you move the wheel. It's an all around worse system. The best system for this kind of nerdiness is a forward facing slanted dropout (for example, the recently departed Surly Cross Check). That still allows manual gear change tomfoolery, but it makes wheel removal, especially with fenders, much easier. Eric On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 7:26 PM Paul Richardson <pjrichard...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi bill > > perhaps a dumb question BUT i wonder if you'd mind shedding light on how > this dropout vs. quickbeam (/s.o./f.j.sr.) dropout changes the setup > options. i'm not clear on the effect of the horizontal dropout as opposed > to the slanted one. > > i too find many reasons to be very excited about the pending roaduno > DROP. > > thanks! > paul > takoma park, md. > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/eb9531ec-9208-4e15-888e-9238a5a7226an%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/eb9531ec-9208-4e15-888e-9238a5a7226an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAHFNW5D2__aBmD68azVnM6c%2BKYaMTBx1VA-53958pStXLgN5bA%40mail.gmail.com.
