Originally Posted by
seypat
Yes to old steel and horizontal dropouts. No to downtube shifters. I much prefer bar ends to downtube shifters. I have big guads and beefy forearms. There is not enough room there to shift a DT. I have to stop pedaling, splay the legs out and try to get an arm in there. That's when it gets squirrely.
What kind of skewers? External cam or internal cam. Most folks avoid the problem with old-fashioned internal cam skewers. And as said above, the skewers should always be tight enough for the most severe use.