Oooh. This has me thinking I could strip down my Roadrat and have an awesome yellow thing..

Yes you could.

I can pretend it’s a Shand from a distance

What’s the difference between this and a Roadrat?

The forks are on the right way round?

Looks nice till you notice the dropout! Its like a wart, I can’t help staring.

Tell me they don’t have those nasty horizontal drop-outs from the Roadrat? Looks nice other than that.

What’s the difference between this and a Roadrat?

Escapade is for drop bars.
Roadrat for flat bars.

Both have those dropouts that take hub, derellieur, or no gears.

I’m with Yokaiser on this one. I don’t understand why they didn’t put forward facing dropouts on this. This is the kind of bike that will probably have mudguards on, and possibly a rack, and having track ends just makes it a pain in the ass.

Beyond that, it’s a really nice wee frame, but the dropouts are really what puts me off.