Originally Posted by
Andrew R Stewart
The drop out with disk mounts attachment to the stays looks under engineered to my eyes. As it is currently, IMO, it will tend to rotate around the axle, without much bracing between the disk mounts (upper) and the seat stay It would not surrprise me if the drop out works loose of the stay ends. Only if the disk mounts were attached futher up the seat stay would a brace from the seat stay to the chain stay help. And then that would be a very good addition. Andy.
I agree that the tab "floating" out past the ss greatly reduces how effective the strut will actually be. Short of using a better dropout design though, it seems like tying the two stays together can't hurt.
The BBS dropouts feature large "teeth" that sit outside a slot in the bamboo with the carbon wrapping encasing it and wound between the teeth.
That part seems grossly over-engineered from a strength standpoint. I think that the butt joints between the balsa and stays has more potential to be the weak link.