On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 13:22 -0400, Peter Morgano wrote: > Bah, horizontal drops worked well for decades and the give the option > to go SS or internal, why not have options? Setting a wheel straight > in a dropout takes about 30 seconds.
Horizontal dropouts NEVER worked "well." They worked lousy, and they slipped even with the "good" style quick releases -- and these days, the good style quick releases are getting scarce. Why should most of us suffer so that a tiny handful have the option to remove the supplied drive train on this bargain basement Riv and pay extra to install an internal gear hub? > > On Jul 4, 2012 1:19 PM, "James Warren" <jimcwar...@earthlink.net> > wrote: > Agreed. Verticals are so much nicer on a derailler bike, and > you never have to worry about wheel slippage when using QR. > > -Jim W. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 4, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Steve Palincsar > <palin...@his.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:53 -0400, Peter Morgano wrote: > >> +1 on all that, especially horizontal drops > > > > Why? They're an enormous pain in the a$$ with no benefit > for users of > > derailleur drive trains, and this bike is coming with a > derailleur drive > > train. > > > > > >> > >> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:44 AM, PATRICK MOORE > <bertin...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> I guess that the Xmart crowd often (not always, of > course) > >> spends high > >> $ on cars and big trucks a lot fancier than many > listers own, > >> along > >> with big TVs, electronic junk and fancy > phones/service, at > >> least to > >> judge by what I see in the parking lot and on the > shelves at > >> my (as > >> rare as possible) trips to the WalMart near my > mother's house. > >> > >> I hope the new bike has 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 > rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > 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 > rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch > +unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 > rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch > +unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
