Originally Posted by DocRay
What evidence do you have that they are "too thin"? They are developing the frames, and some real engineering is involved. They're not "eyeballin' it". This isn't American Chopper.
You give those guys WAY too much credit for their “engineering” expertise.
Those Linskey dropouts were designed to be sexy, plain and simple – pure marketing. They are killer thin; maybe the thinnest in the industry. I’m sure they will be fine with normal usage but one good boink and they are going to bend – 6/4 Ti is basically as strong as regular 4130 steel, and you won’t find any steel dropouts that thin either. For about ˝ an ounce, they could have beefed them up significantly, but then they would be just like everyone else…thus the reason for the current design – to stand out.
I can’t clip a photo off the Linskey site so if you need to see what these dropouts look like, click over to their gallery.
http://lynskeyperformance.com/gallery/2