Battle of the Custom Dropouts

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
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