Mark T laid this down on his screen :
> Rob Morley writtificated
>
>>> Front fork dropout spacing might be a tad less than modern bikes.
>>
>> Really? In a 1980's road bike with 700C forks?
>
> Have a looksie at my fixie (admittedly it's a Raleigh, and they used to
> pride themselves on making things difficult for us)
Unusual, even for a (decent) Raleigh, but I'd be amazed if it were a
problem on a 979. As far as rear dropouts are concerned, I believe they
were all 126mm - perhaps they changed near the end - but certainly I
never had problems with 130 hubs in mine.
In actualy fact, I bought a 979 in the late 80s when my road frame
broke, just as a stop-gap. When I joined a team the next season I got a
new frame from them, and the 979 was mothballed. I was then involved in
a big crash in a stage race, and totalled my team bike - back to the
979 (hasty rebuild by me and the team mechanic before stage 2 after my
dad drove 200 miles with it! Good old Dad!). New frame - seat tube
cracked the following season. Back to the 979...
For all that people are deriding them, I found mine to be brilliant,
albeit that it's small, and therefore stiffer. In fact, it's still in
my parents' attic, if anyone cares to make a sensible offer for a
twenty-year-old 50cm model! Might be dusty, though...!
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Simon
