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Don't forget to add a little support to the seatstay when mounting the tab directly to it.<br>
 
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Latest revision as of 12:59, 14 February 2008

Slotted Dropouts

Kirk Pacenti sells some nice tabs that can be welded to old single speed frames to get them up to speed with disc brakes. I wish that the lower tab was longer. It was very difficult to preserve the usefulness of the slots in this application. I lost 1/3 of the slot range.

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Don't forget to add a little support to the seatstay when mounting the tab directly to it.
Disc-brake-retrofit-3.jpg