"of course, right after that, they came up with the track style dropouts used on the rosco bubbe bikes"
The Rosco Bubbes do have semi-horizontal dropouts, but I wouldn't call them track style. I'm sure that's all you meant. Track style would be rear facing horizontals with no derailer tab. The Roscos dropouts are semi-horizontal, forward facing with a derailer hanger. It is worth repeating that these dropouts are Rivendell exclusive castings, not something bought out of the Long Shen catalog. The fact that they went to the trouble to get yet another investment cast part set up indicates that they are thinking about having the capability for certain kinds of options as they move forward. Maybe a single speed might be on the horizon, or maybe just selling bikes with the ability to be set up as a single speed is enough. Grant himself has his 59 Clem L set up as a single speed, but since his Clem L has vertical dropouts, he's running a tensioner. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA P.S. when I got the singlespeed bug, I bought a NOS Dura Ace Track rear hub. I ended up finding a complete bike with 130mm O.L.D. so I've never used this track hub. If any of you potential Steamroller buyers want a nice 120mm track hub, let me know. I bought it for $90 which seems to be under ebay market value now. If I sell it to you for $90, I get my money back, and you get a good price relative to 2017 market value. On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 9:18:04 AM UTC-7, iamkeith wrote: > > I know it's not quite the same thing, but there's always the option of a > white industries eccentric eno hub. Works on ANY riv frame. There was a > blug entry or reader article or something, that specifically said that this > was the reason Rivendell is unlikey to do any more single speeds (of > course, right after that, they came up with the track style dropouts used > on the rosco bubbe bikes, so who knows if or when they might change their > mind) -- 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.
