Originally Posted by
rootboy
That kinda looks like the one D. Dude did, that broke. There are, of course, diminishing returns depending on how much material you remove. I'm going to try my first drilled component this winter. First since 1977 that is, when I did a couple chain rings with a hand drill.
Interesting - I think that's the second completely-hollowed-out NR rear I did (I kept the first). It was done for my buddy in WA in West Seattle; he told me he passed it on to a guy in Japan IIRC. This pic is obviously after he passed it on, because my buddy was a gram-freak and cut his cables right up against the pinch-bolts and didn't even cap them.
Funny to see this old thing (only the second ever example of my drillium) so many years later. He rode it for a couple years, btw
DD