"Just save yourself a tonne of work and sell them with welded brake mounts. If people dont like mounts they will cut them off. Every BMXer should know how to use a angle grinder."
Selling frames with welded mounts will only limit your setup. That's one reason they have/are fading out.
If you decided you wanted to ride back brakes but you hacked them off then what... with removable you just screw the mounts back in. Vise Versa.
NO! Removable limits us. Yes cutting your mounts off limits you. But it also voids your warranty. So most wouldnt do it unless you really wanted to go brakeless. Now for us who really want to have brakes are f*cked as we rip them right out and then we have to do the long warranty job which puts US THE CUSTOMER out of pocket more by shipping it to you.
You ask for comments but in the end you all ready have decided on what you want to do with this frame. You are even paying to have frames with different dropouts as you are determined to have them. But you ask us what we want and when we tell you come up with excuses.
this what I would do for the customers (100 is an example)
have the 2 size frames like you stated
2 colours for each frame size( a colour that is popular at the moment say black or raw and something that is different/stands out... like most company's do)
All have open dropouts and welded brake mounts.
so say I ordered 100 to be made, 50 one size 50 the other size. They will built all one size then all the other size to save time on changing jigs and cutting the tubes ect...
when it goes to paint all you say is this batch 25 one colour 25 the other colour.
when the next size batch comes in 25 one colour 25 the other colour.
DONE.
What you want to do is
have 2 sizes, two choices of droupouts, maybe 2 choices of colours, maybe some with welded brake mounts the rest with with removable mounts...
the more you complicate the types the more likely the welding shop will mess up and do to many/less or the painters will.
And you dont want to have 10 frames not selling because you HAD to have enclosed dropouts. All company's hate stock not moving.
And if your just going to orders one off's and not order in a batch, they why dont we just order the one off ourselves from standard? And choose what we like?
Please tell us how many you want to make and we on global will help you out. If not then dont ask for our feedback. As we all know so far that we know alot more about the industry than you so far.
What is your experience with BMX anyways? What would you say to convince someone from buying another well know frame company than yours?
And this is not to "dig" at you. I really dont think you are thinking about the customer and also the business side aswell.