Thread: Spacers in rear dropouts?
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Old 09-16-10 | 11:23 PM
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Originally Posted by RavingManiac
The spacers that you sometimes find in rear dropouts, what is their purpose? Why wouldn't you want the axle to slide in as far as possible? This is in reference to horizontal dropouts. I have an old Nishiki Seral touring frame I'm doing a build on, it had the spacers, took up about the last 3/8 inch of the dropout. Why?
Because!


Horizontal dropouts were what was available (for '70's era bikes) and people couldn't be trusted to put the axle in its proper place above the derailleur pivot.
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