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Well, Andrew, your reply was a whole lot less throwaway than my initial post. :-) Thanks for the explanation and the sturdy defence of the eccentric bottom bracket.
One question does come to mind, though. Would some gear combinations cause problems and leave you struggling to get the chain tight? I only say this because - judging from the diagram on the Steelwool website - the maximum amount of adjustment in the BB, the movement from one side of the shell to the other, doesn't seem comparable to the range of adjustment in a track end or horizontal dropout.
I've been thinking about this for the last twenty minutes, and I still can't get my head around it. Apologies if I've missed something.