[CR]Re: Drop-outs

(Example: Production Builders:Frejus)

From: <StuartMX4@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:32:09 EDT
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: Drop-outs

Sheldon wrote

"I believe dropouts were only invented in the 1940s, or maybe '30s, before then all bikes had rear-opening fork ends."

I feel distinctly nervous about disageeing with Sheldon, but is he right? If you are suggesting that they were rare in the thirties, Sheldon, I would suggest otherwise. There were plenty of forward facing dropouts in the thirties; I am looking at some now on an Oscar Egg and catalogues show Super Champion, Simplex and Cyclo derailleurs in them. I am pretty sure that they appeared first (?) in the twenties. I fully expect to get my knuckles rapped for my presumption. As a lover of final quotations, I hope you find mine apposite.

Stuart Tallack in Great Britain

``I think it a shame when the worthy Homer nods; but in so long a work it is allowable if drowsiness comes on.'' Horace

And for elderly Britons, I would add, "What did Horace say, Winnie?" Harry Hemsley