The QB and SimpleOne dropouts were water-jet cut in Woodinville, Washington according to a drawing we sent them, and they worked well. They have a "no funny business" look about them that, without being at all ugly, didn't seem a good match with the rest of the stuff on the new FRANK...so BLUE LUG and us split the cost of the new mold, and we came up with the new one. The function and joint geometry determine the overall shape, the length of the slot is within a mm or two of the oldie--and ought to absorb an 8T difference, like QB did. Then we went at it to make it look good. It was a collaborative effort btw me, a guy named Dan, Roman, and Will (who ultimately made the final aesthetic tweak-call). Internally, we call it the "alligator dropout." On "dropout": Sheldon was steadfast in his not liking track "fork ends" to be called dropouts, because the horizontal slot doesn't allow an unchanged wheel to, literally, drop OUT of the thing. I do my own honoring of Sheldon with his favored (and now mine) "derailer," but to me, "track ends" is in the same category as "tyre," "seat pin," "rear mech." Somebody recently pointed out to me that my favored "catalogue," with a perfect run for more than 28 years, is in the same boat, so -- nothing against the English, but I'm back to "catalog." No biggie, either.
On Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 9:27:56 AM UTC-8, jandrews_nyc wrote: > > Just curious why the original QB/SO track end was redesigned... > Does anyone know how the new one changes the flexibility of > gearing...isn't it still an 8 tooth difference while maintaining brake pad > position? > Maybe it's so they could extend the chain stays? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
