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Certain types of bikes have horizontal dropouts where the wheel will come out of the frame
this way instead of straight up and down. These kinds of frames require a little more
attention when clamping the rear wheel in because it is possible to clamp the wheel
in quite crooked to the point where it's actually rubbing on the frame, never mind the brakes.
See, it still looks straight up here but down here it's quite crooked, so it does require
that you align the wheel in the bottom part of the frame before you clamp it. Make sure
the the rim is equidistant from each of these tubes of the frame they refer to as the chain
stays, these are the seat stays. But again, it's really important to clamp in a wheel
straight in the back on a horizontal dropout bike and to really doubly make sure that the
quick release is clamped very tightly as the wheel can slide in this type of dropout versus
the vertical dropout.