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Old 02-23-18 | 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Scratcher33
A pretty significant amount -- around 10mm. There have never been any complaints about function but it does make setting up the brakes fairly strange.

Horizontal dropouts but no amount of adjustment compensates for this.

I've had this on two bikes. I suspected that it was NOT wheel dish because, like yours, the wheel was centered in the chain stays. I checked dish and it was good. I checked frame alignment using the string method, and it was good.

With the frames stripped down to bare naked I discovered what was wrong. Setting the frame on a known flat surface, it would teeter-totter. Meaning, if the bottom bracket was flat on the deck, then one dropout would be touching the deck and one was a few MMs off the deck. If I pushed both dropouts down to make contact with the deck, the bottom bracket didn't sit level. Upon further and closer inspection, and measuring, I could see that one dropout was positioned and welded into the stays slightly higher than the other. I confirmed this by measuring chain stay heights with the bottom bracket flush and level. It was just the dropouts.

These were cheap bikes so my solution was very easy. I took a file to the "low" dropout. Removing a tiny bit at the dropout has a much bigger affect at the top of the wheel. Got it sorted very quickly, easily, and it's not visible because the QR or axle nut will hide the work.
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