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Old 03-29-10 | 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by TejanoTrackie
OK, in all fairness to the naysayers, there are some cases when the hub flange is too close to the end of the treads on a fixed hub, such that a freewheel body will hit the outboard spokes. There was a case reported in a previous thread of this problem with a Dura Ace low flange track hub and a flip/flop fixed/fixed track wheel I recently puchased is like this. Hubs like the Harris/Formula are designed with sufficient clearance that a freewheel will work safely and properly.
I solved that by adding a bottom bracket cup ring as a spacer to my Formula Fixed/Fixed hub.


You can just see the reeded edge of the "spacer" on the left side of the wheel.
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