Dropouts are critical to the design of the rear end of a bike. I recently took the big step of designing and manufacturing my own dropouts. I created designs: the Artefact UDH dropout and the DR30. What do you guys think? Which design do you prefer?
Artefact Bikes:
Neuhaus Metalworks:
Chapters:
Intro 00:00
Why Custom Dropouts? 00:10
Artefact UDH 00:37
Why I don’t like UDH 00:43
UDH drafts 01:07
compound radius: 01:34
DR30 02:09
Derailleur Hanger 02:36
Conclusions 02:51