Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Help

So I finally got al my parts together and went for my first fixie ride today, in the rain, with no brakes. It was awesome!! Everything was going great until I went to start off from a red light and my hub was stripped. 3 miles from home!!!

I had my 14t cog on the freewheel side of my brand new sovos hub. I had locktite on the lockring (bottom bracket) too. What caused this? Tomorrow im gonna go to my LBS and see if they have a real lockring and im gonna try again on the stepped threaded side.

Is there anything i can do to make sure i don't strip this side. I wasn't going fast and i wasn't on a downhill or anything. What a good hub that i can get for under $100 that won't strip? THanks for the help.
Dre

you probably need to make sure that your cog is on tight. i stripped my hub on my khs and had to buy a new one. as onetinsloth suggested, first put the cog on with the lockring and go ride ride for a bit with no backpedaling. second, come home and then retighten the lockring. maybe your cog is low quality? the cog and lockring are two things i would never skimp on since they are my lifelines.

First off, send the hub back to Sovos and get a refund. There is no excuse for striping threads after one ride. Then, go buy yourself a decent hub, like a Surly, Suzue Promax, or Kogswell/Van Dessel (same hub, but only if you have 135mm rear end). Finally, buy a Dura Ace or EAI cog and a DA lockring, and install.

........ my brand new sovos hub. There's your problem...

Fixed it! All it took was some jbweld-ish stuff and a spacer. I put the cog and spacer back on the same side that stripped with generous amounts of the stuff and it works fine. It even got me to work this morning. I have another cog and lockring in the mail for the actual "fixed" side of the hub.

........ my brand new sovos hub. There's your problem...

are they really that shoddy?
i've been riding my sovos hub for ... 5 years now w/o any major problems (knock knock). should i be scared? very scared?

-Dennis

i think the problem that steers most away from the sovos hubs is that they are terribly inconsistent, quality-wise. the same can be said of the suzue basic hubs. and a few other brands. i don't think i'd ever buy any hubset without checking the threads in person before hand....