As a follow-up, here are photos of the dropouts on my Pashley Guvnor (a genuine hand-made English bicycle):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35176895@N03/sets/72157627879125874/ And a video tour of the Pashley factory in Stratford-Upon-Avon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RjTJmtW_b0 --Eric [email protected] www.campyonly.com www.wheelsnorth.org On Oct 11, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Rex Kerr wrote: > Anybody want to help me decipher this? > > > The odd thing here is that the dropout shown is just a flat piece of steel > > that’s stuck into the slot, and the neat thing is how it forms a nice > > raised point. Raised points on dropouts are hard to create and really rare > > (we’ve done them on some bikes from Toyo, and customs). It’s neat to see > > that on this super cheapy. > > What did he [you, if you're Grant :-) ] mean by raised points? > > -Rex > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Peter Pesce <[email protected]> wrote: > Just noticed Grant's blog post from his trip to NYC. > > I think it's really great that he looked at what must have been a literal sea > of bikes and saw the small and strange things about them that nobody else > would have noticed. > > Cool, that's all. > > -Pete > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/0wuV7xY5W1IJ. > 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. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
