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Old 09-18-13 | 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by tombc
because the pedantic coot Sheldon Brown said so on his website
I'd cut him some slack, because he was a nice guy and also because he's dead now. But folks on BF seem to follow this rule of his religiously, and I don't see any sin in saying dropout when referring to those thingies on track bikes.
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