If you're having new wheels built up, you could consider building the rear around a fixed/free hub, rather than the stock free/free hub. That would let you use a real fixed gear lockring (it's left hand threaded, so it can't spin off), yet you can still use a freewheel on either side if you like. There's really no down side.
Eric On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:28 PM, i.e. <ien...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello RBW owners, > > After several years of visits to RBW headquarters, drooling over the > Readers, and a couple of Riv-ish bike builds, I'm proud to say that > I'll be a Quickbeam owner by the end of the week! > > I've managed to score an orange QB frameset and I'm having the folks > at Rivendell build it up for me. I was planning to go with a stock > build (I really like and want to honor the original concept), plus a > front rack, basket, and fenders. I do have a couple of questions to > put to the group, though, before I go through with my plans: > > 1) Have any of you ridden with a fixed cog on flip side of the stock > hub? Is it safe without a lockring and with the quick release? Have > you experienced any slippage? I wouldn't be doing any skid or skip > stops with two brakes, but I would probably be doing some back-pedal > braking when riding fixed. > > > 2) Seeing as this a build-up project, I have the opportunity to tweak > the stock build as much as I like (or can afford). Is there anything > you modified later that you wish had come on the stock bike? Any tips > appreciated. > > Thanks in advance for any responses. It's great to be able to join > this group! > > i.e. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
