Originally Posted by
xxguitarist
While I'm at it, how are the chances for a 700 wheeled bike with horizontal dropouts? Seems as one became the standard, the other fell out of favor.
700C wheels have been pretty much standard on continental European road bikes since about the 1960s. Horizontal (forward facing) road dropouts were standard for even longer. It's only from the mid 1980s on that vertical dropouts and 650B and other wheel sizes made any significant inroads.