Originally Posted by stevo
I havent died in 16 years. Empircism trumps theorism (at least in my book).
and oh, before trackbikes became the fad that it is in the last few years, this was the common method of going fixed.
I'm not quite as old as you are, I guess, but I built my first fixed gear up thirteen years ago.
I used a real track hub, with a lockring.