Whats your favourite dropout?

Whats your favourite dropout?

  • fat chance

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  • breezer, breeze in hooded.

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  • klein horizontal

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  • yeti loopstay

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  • merlin titanium (old style)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • merlin, IF, litespeed (new style re IF 07 thread)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • other

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scant

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After the IF 07 thread its obvious (& extremely geeky!) that dropouts are a love hate kinda thing. My personal fave would (unsurprisingly!) be fat chance, specifically titanium. Although I do also like breezer "hooded style" IE on titus hcr, steve potts, breezer, ibis etc.
so whats yer favourite?
 
When you say "hooded" do you mean the Ritchey type ones?

I loved the Ritchey dropouts on the Kona Hot I had - I think these are just like the Ibis ones?
 
in ti it looks like that...
ibis_szazbo_ti_4588_004.jpg



scant":i56x2ls1 said:
nar, ritchey are different, breezer are more like this http://www.firstflightbikes.com/_borders/RetroDrop.JPG
moots, curtlo, some voodoos, also use em. pretty certain cunningham did as well? probs steve potts? certainly their popularity alone across so many different brands must mean something :)
 
I like the hoody tractor arch Breezer ones, but scarily, I agree with Scant again :shock: fat is best.
 
gump":2u09y0ev said:
I like the hoody tractor arch Breezer ones, but scarily, I agree with Scant again :shock: fat is best.

nowt wrong with that, I have superb taste in bicycles ;) :LOL:
 
hey mike,
how about the Klein micro drop outs? my favourites! not a problem at all to swap the wheel once you're used to it and so wonderful minimalistic.

cheers, carsten

whyaklein_detail_8.jpg
 
Those newer Klein dropouts always look like something has broken off (sorry!)

I must admit they were a massive improvement over the original Klein dropouts. I have to remove the QR everytime I need to remove a wheel from my 1992 one...nightmare...

:?
 
The machined dropout/doomed stay combination is my no.1

vitus103720.jpg


Looks great and practical. Much accessiblity & easy to clean.

- Melvin
 
mmmm
 

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