Originally Posted by
patthepunk
I meant horizontal, and i would probeblly use a brake on the front wheel....But the reason i need a new wheelset it because the ones i have are pretty rusty, and really beat to hell.
Front brake = good.
Assuming the frame is steel, you don't really need to worry too much about dropout spacing if you are using a modern 'track' hub. Either the bike is already 120mm spaced and the wheel fits or it is 130mm spaced and you have to squeeze the dropouts together a bit to install the wheel. You don't usually have to manually respace the rear triangle unless you are trying to put a larger hub into a frame with a smaller dropout spacing (eg. When I added a 132.5mm spaced IGH hub to my bikesdirect FG with 120mm spacing)