Originally Posted by
SGMongoose
Well the difference would be the derailleur hanger isn't supporting the weight of you and your bike.
I like the ingenuity tho. Definitely something i could have seen myself doing when i was younger. Have you thought about shortening your chain? the strength in angle iron is, well, the angle... and since you split one side of it to create the 'dropout', the top half of it will fatigue pretty quickly and fail, especially with how long you have it now.
You win on this one. I will admit to it.
I had initially tried putting the cut for the dropout pretty much right up to the backend of the original dropout and I don't remember what the problem was but I know I changed and moved it further back to give me the room to eliminate whatever the problem was that I was experiencing. There were quite a few challenges along the way. The worst was trying to use a hacksaw for doing the cutting since I didn't have bandsaw to work with.