Any Joe Breeze expert that can help me identify this dropout?
08-21-19, 03:53 PM
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Any Joe Breeze expert that can help me identify this dropout?
I’m wondering if this is one of Joe Breeze dropout? I pick up this road bike early this month and on the dropout it had Breeze on it.
Didn’t know he made road bike
08-21-19, 04:06 PM
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I am no expert but he does make road bikes. so its probably a Breezer.
Last edited by jetboy; 08-21-19 at 04:10 PM.
08-21-19, 05:17 PM
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...last I heard, he's alive and running the mountain bike museum in Fairfax, CA. So you could probably e-mail him.
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08-21-19, 05:32 PM
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yeah email him! also id appreciate some pics of the whole frame. I have not seen a Breezer in yellow before.... repaint or a custom job?
connection to @3alarmer here is that I had a too small breezer briefly as I bought it to transfer the athena 11 speed to my zunow, that 3alarmer facilitated for me! Then I sold the frame to someone else on this list.. cool frame.
zunow still loves the athena
connection to @3alarmer here is that I had a too small breezer briefly as I bought it to transfer the athena 11 speed to my zunow, that 3alarmer facilitated for me! Then I sold the frame to someone else on this list.. cool frame.
zunow still loves the athena
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08-21-19, 06:03 PM
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08-22-19, 05:08 AM
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Looks just like mine on my Lightning MTB. As mentioned above, Venturi was a road model. Other brands used Breezer dropouts, some others like Koski and Ritchey used similar ones also, but these have the name on them.
08-22-19, 06:01 AM
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08-22-19, 01:43 PM
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@Repack Rider is Charlie Kelly, maybe he will chime in and I think you're right about Joe Breeze as well though I think we here from him a lot less. 
08-22-19, 09:17 PM
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Breezer as a brand sure doesnt seem to be known for road bikes, but some models were made. And the current Breezer brand has a few gravel/adventure road models.
08-23-19, 01:46 PM
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It's a Koski dropout. Invented by the Koski brothers (Don, Erik, Dave) who designed the ProCruiser and the Trailmaster bikes in the '80s.
