My dropouts have turned out not to be a problem, indeed, they are going to make my life much easier. High school? College? Nope…bicycle.
As I wrote before my old ATB (read MTB) is going to become some sort of single speed bike. I am hoping to keep the cost down and, just as importantly, have as many options as possible. These are not always mutually exclusive goals.
In my case I was hoping that I could run my bike both in freewheel mode and, possibly, as a fixed gear bike. The problem is that most modern-ish bikes use a vertical dropouts, but for singlespeeds it is much easier to work with horizontal dropouts.
You can see various dropouts on Sheldon Brown’s page on the topic…
My dropouts seem to be of the shorter semi-horizontal variety…here’s a really bad image of them (and if you look close you can see the derailleur is an Altus C50).
If I’m not mistaken, this is going to make my life a lot easier; I can probably use a flip-flop hub and have the best of both worlds.
So far I haven’t actually managed to get any work done on my bike, but today I will begin.
And on that note, I’ve just discovered that Sheldon mentions the bottom bracket on my bike…
Altus C50 CT50 Triple 122.5 Square 47.5 rivetted 1994-95
I’m going to have to figure out what that means. 🙂
Aloha!