I have a Rosco Bubbe road bike, and I wish it had normal vertical dropouts. I used chainring bolts as spacers to position the rear axle more to the front of the horizontal dropouts. That mod makes horizontal dropouts behave more like vertical dropouts. The only reason anyone should prefer horizontal dropouts is because they want to do a drivetrain with no rear derailer. Singlespeed, fixed, IGH, etc, are all better with horizontal dropouts. For everything else, I strongly prefer vertical dropouts.
Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 9:40:47 PM UTC-8, Drivel wrote: > > I'm waiting for delivery of a Rosco Bubbe Mixte and very excited to see it > in person. I've noticed many of the rear dropouts of the Roscos are > horizontal including the mixte. Does anyone know why? Is there a benefit or > will they possibly make it harder to deal with fenders? I'm sure there's > got to be a good reason I'm not thinking of. > -- 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.
