I’ve been riding my Soul now for about 1.5 years. Fantastic bike for me. It is set up with 1X10 drivetrain and it works very well but… I’ve fallen in love with singlespeed in the last 4 years and frankly, I’ve ridden my SS everywhere I’ve gone with my 1X10… (or very close…)to the point where I’m thinking of converting my Soul to SS. I know about the Philcentric (I have one on another bike)but I would like to be able to shorten the wheelbase some more, and the only way to do that would be by modifying the rear with the addition of adjustable dropouts.

Has anyone done or considered doing this? Is it fairly easy to have someone modify and weld the dropouts?

Thanks!

Have a chat with ben @ Kinetics about Paragon dropouts.

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Did the Simple not have slidy dropouts?

Simple is now a 29er

Simple had basic slot dropouts, I’ve got a Mk I 26in Simple and love it to bits, you could see if you could find one but they don’t come up for sale often…

Which is why I bought one of the prototype Souls with EBB of of Cy last year to give me a SS’able Soul with the bigger seat-tube for a dropper, but that wouldn’t cover your adjustable WB needs, have a chat with some of the UK frame builders, one of them is bound to be up for it, at a price 😉

…. ehhhh…. forgot to mention: I’m on the other side of the Pond actually… Canada! We share the same “Queen”…

well in that case find a local frame builder in Canada!

Thanks amedias, I will be doing this but I would like to know first if someone has done this or at least looked at possible ways of doing this…

I just use a derailleur-hanger tensioner (On One Doofer) on my Soul:

Way back in the mk1/mk2 Soul era someone in the UK did lop the dropouts off and get sliders (I think) put on. Renamed it a Cotic Solo – looked great…

Call me odd but I really like the way Ben_H’s doofer means his chain runs parallel to itself.

There’s a type of rear hub that does all that kind of malarkey. Unfortunately I don’t know what it’s called! It’s offset and it swivels, similar to a ebb…

Here you go…

Yes I’ve been thinking about doing something similar… When my current Inbred finally dies (seat-tube fail) I’ll be keeping the excellent dropouts (track-ends / slotted brake mounts) for a potential future custom build. A tatty old Soul would be a great candidate for such a treatment, followed by a fresh powdercoat 🙂

How well does that White Industries hub work?

didn’t someone on here put sliding drop out on a cotic Solaris or was I dreaming?

the WI ENO hubs are pretty good, I’ve got a couple and they do what they say…can be a slight faff with disk mounting requiring either the eccentric disk mount or rotor size change and washers jiggery-pokery to get it sorted.

They also have a slight effect on head/seat angle and BB height, depends how picky you are as to whether thats a good/bad/non thing.

didn’t someone on here put sliding drop out on a cotic Solaris or was I dreaming?

This one?

Yes that is the one!

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Call me odd but I really like the way Ben_H’s doofer means his chain runs parallel to itself.

I’d say his chain is too long, not much wrap around the rear sprocket.