Dear Carleton,
What are the advantages of the horizontal dropouts of the SS/FG frame? Are the advantages practical to the everyday rider or is it simply street cred?
After pondering this myself, the only two conclusions I made were:
1. Easier to adjust chain tension
2. the weight of the rider is held better on the horizontal dropout than the angled dropouts of a conversion.
Does that make sense?
Forgive me if this insults the intelligence of you or the readers, but I'd like to know from a trusted source.
Thanks.