Boingggggg! Springy dropouts.

[2manyoranges]

130, 135, 142, 148, 150. Goodness how the little blighters keep growing. And shrinking.

There remains a very moany on-line complainant about Dan Stanton .. ‘Rubbish quality control from Stanton, the dropouts on my 29er were too small for 148 and too large for 142….terrible…’ and no matter how much Dan and the team explained, this guy keeps popping up complaining about it. But that was the DESIGN on that older model. Now, Dan offers different bolt-in dropouts, which is great, but the idea was that because the frames were lovely steel jobs, you could use the spring of steel to accommodate ‘near size’ changes in axle standard.

COTIC have the same on some frames - the RoadRat3 has spring dropouts (Boing) which can be pulled out to 135 or cranked in on the axle to 130. Nice. And a very nice design solution in my view.

 

[novocaine]

only works if both stays are identical, which is very hard to do on a modern frame running modern components (looking at you, 1x). Otherwise you get a good crab effect when one side springs out 5,10,15 and 100mm (ok, thats a joke) and the other doesn't. something that Stanton and I'm sure Cotic have accounted for, but others in the Steel frame world didn't or haven't.

I'd rather see a single standard set and we can stop with all this blugh, but that isn't going to happen, so perhaps just a min and max would be useful. I'd love to see 130mm resigned to the retro world once and for all with 135 being the defacto for road bikes, it opens up so many more hub options

almost all boost sizes make my head hurt now, but I'm sure it makes a huge difference.

 

[2manyoranges]

yes, boost is SO frustrating - building a couple of bikes last year I asked the manufacturers ‘so this is standard or boost and what’s the chainline’ - having been told, I thought definitively, I scored some new XTR from Germany at 150gbp and Ireland 120gbp only to find that they weren’t right….grrrrr….and I had listened VERY carefully to what the company reps had said. The ‘cranks’ box now has quite a few new bits in it……..f r u s t r a t i n g ….