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Old 09-15-06 | 02:59 PM
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LWaB
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Originally Posted by ridelugs
blah blah that if those same axles were placed in a vertical drop out, thier failure rate would drop exponentially.
I break about one Campag 7sp freewheel axle a year, whether riding a bike with vertical dropouts or one with horizontal. Even though it is a sample of one (and therefore statistically meaningless), wouldn't you expect to see a difference using that logic?
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