Originally Posted by
Rocket-Sauce
Once again, we did it first -and better
Retro roadies- old frames with STI's or Ergos
I SO wanted to like this video since the above thread is one of my favorite on these forums. But as soon as they decided to add disc brakes to make it "safer", I lost a lot of respect for GCN. The troubles with adding disc tabs to the fork are illustrated above, but the stays are just as bad. It was hard to see, but there were no reinforcing or bracing on the stays. Just a brake mount welded on.
There are tons of better examples of this done right in their own "bike vault".
Didn't they put on a whole extended dropout that includes the brake tabs? This is a safe way to do it. The dropout curiously looked like one from Paragon Machine Works so it may be that his "mate around the corner" was actually in the US. Here in the UK we get most of those things from Ceeway and I'm not sure they carry that kind.
The whole thing was about as genuine as a £2 note.
If it was actually an interesting bike show they would make some kind of a jig to test where the fork will fail (not send their best presenter off on a 100 mile ride to see if she dies).
The dropouts are these possibly:
https://www.paragonmachineworks.com/...low-mount.html
Here's a frame from the video.