Huh?

Andy_K 's frame has standard Campy 1010 dropouts.

[MENTION=111144]Andy_K[/MENTION] wrote: "Was there anything that differentiated them from year to year? I read somewhere that some Stellas had the year of manufacture stamped on the inside of the rear derailleur hanger, but since some previous owner had cut the hanger off this one that isn't much help."

Was the "drewed" hanger on the dropout replaced?

If you look at the short chain stays on my friend's Stella it was probably built as a close coupled criterium frame??? The dropouts were chrome plated so original too.



The French used vertical dropouts on a lot of specialty frames. Simplex and Huret made vertical dropouts as well as Campy.

Campagnolo 1060 dropouts



Simplex vertical dropouts



Huret stamped steel vertical dropouts



Vertical dropouts were also used on a lot of French randonneur style touring bikes because they made removing and reinstalling the rear wheel with loaded panniers a lot easier.

Aside from fixie fools castrating rear dropouts "RD hanger-ectomys" on French bikes while not common was more of a US thing because Campagnolo and Japanese RDs were far more popular.

Simplex and Huret RDs with their proprietary hangers were still common and popular in France well into the late 70's.

"Is it wrong, or just French"

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