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fixed/fixed on regular flip/flop hub?

  • 28-01-2009 7:37pm
    #1
    crown of storms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭


    i hope this isn't too silly a question but can you put a fixed cog with lockring on each side of a flip/flop hub-the sort of hubs that come standard with a langster/bowery etc.?
    Thanks!


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  • #2
    flickerx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭flickerx


    crown of storms wrote: »
    i hope this isn't too silly a question but can you put a fixed cog with lockring on each side of a flip/flop hub-the sort of hubs that come standard with a langster/bowery etc.?
    Thanks!

    Standard langster flip flop is threaded only for fixed on one side and freewheel on the other. AFAIR.


  • #3
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    The (2008) Bowery is a actually a double fixed hub with a freewheel threaded onto one of the fixed sides. So you could easily go double fixed on this.

    The Langster as far as I am aware is a fixed/free like flickerx says, e.g. one side has full length threading with no reverse thread for a lockring. My Tricross is like this anyway as far as I can make out although I am waiting on the tool to remove the freewheel to confirm.

    You can however run a fixed sprocket without a lockring on the freewheel side ("suicide hub") which is perfectly safe as long as you have brakes and are not relying on the sprocket to stop the bike. You should not unscrew a tightly affixed sprocket with gradual back pedalling to slow the bike but you can with a skip stop. The fixed sprocket on my Bowery right now doesn't have a lockring as the threads on one side are stripped. I planned on moving it but right now I cannot get it off! I had spun the sprocket off a few times previously, but always through skidding.


  • #4
    crown of storms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭crown of storms


    great- thanks a million for the help


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