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Old 09-12-10, 07:36 AM
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Unless you can lace the spokes into a new hub yourself, buying a fixed wheel or wheelset is cheaper and easier.

Some people put a fixed cog on a hub which does not have the reverse thread for the lockring. They use a lockring from an old three-piece bottom bracket because it has the same threads as a fixed cog or a singlespeed hub. They probably also use lots of loctite thread adhesive. However, since the lockring goes onto the same threads as the fixed cog in this case, they say it can come loose and unscrew itself when braking.

There is no way to loosen the lockring on a real fixed gear hub because the lockring threads are left hand threads and the harder you backpedal the fixed cog, the more you tighten the lockring.

Try the singlespeed and fixed gear subforum here on bikeforums. They might know more about it.

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