Originally Posted by
ppg677
My Trek 95x also has the Shimano UF dropouts. John said that they were prone to breakage. But hopefully if they've lasted this long that we've got good ones.
We did have an inordinate number of failures with the UF dropouts, and changed to Campy 1010B dropouts as a result. Yoshi Kono at 3Rensho had similar problems and also changed to Campy. But if these ones have lasted 30 years without failure, I wouldn't be too concerned at this point.
Odd on the painted panels. Every other example I've seen shows the panels as decals.
Painted panels were used on the 750/770 and 950/970 models. Lower-end models got the panel decals.