Actually, I do have a question.
I want to use a hub gear on my tourer (531ST). It currently has vertical dropouts. I know I could go with a chain tensioner, but I think they're ugly, and, besides, I want to have the option of a fixed.
Now, next refurb I see the options as these:
Change the dropouts for trad horizontal ones, but I think they're getting rarer.
Change the dropouts for Rohloff-style sliding dropouts (better if I add a disc brake, of which more another time)
leave the dropouts and swap the BB (thread getting tired anyway) for an EBB, which makes disc brakes a good option (of which more later, as I say).
I've spoken to another framebuilder, who doesn't like EBBs because they change the effective seat angle, but I wouldn't have thought that was particularly critical on a tourer, though I don't have the experience to be certain (just been riding a bike for thirty years).
I'd appreciate your views.