I think some here are mistaken in their view of this drop out's creation. These people are looking at this through the eyes of having had vertical drop outs and fixie bikes common for many years. Doing so these people can't understand the view from the perspective of vertical drop outs being rare and fixies really being track bikes.


When these drop outs were introduced the horizontal drop out (with der hanger) was the standard. The campy short dropouts (1010B) had been brought out only a couple of handfuls of years earlier, the Asian ones even more recently. Verticals were just coming to market in any volume and had the reputation of being challenging to build with. Track (and there were no fixie bikes at this point in time) bikes all used proper track drop outs.


So to get that modern look, the short horizontal slot, and save cost some high volume production brands started to use the design pictured here. Simple looks and cost driven. Nothing to do with fixie options, nothing to do with modifying previous drop out forgings (and I suspect this drop out is actually stamped, not forged).


I could say get over your current view of the bike world, that it doesn't revolve around your current perspective, that some here are myopic. But I won't say that, everyone has an opinion. It's just that some don't take into account history. Andy