Originally Posted by
jimc101
The thing is, you have a track bike, and the OP is trying to make a tourer out of a road bike, 2 totally different bikes, a tourer is much more likly to encounter debris, leaves and mud, especially not using roads, i.e MUP's / cycle lanes; track bikes are designed for ..... a track/velodrome, where there should be no chance of encountering debris or mud.
I should have made it clear. This was a track bike to which I added a front brake some 40+ years ago and which I rode for years as a city, weekend tourer, light utility, bopper, all conditions bike. It's set up with a 2 speed fixed bike, and goes everywhere, including where SUV's drive at less than 5mph. I only stopped riding it fairly recently when fixed gear became trendy, making it lose it's cool for me.
Mud can't build up by it's very nature, as the tire will continually maintain clearance, the type of small stone a tire may pick up will either bounce back or is small enough force through squeezing the tire down. For any type of lock up to occur he'd have to have a tire with a deep lugged tread like an aggressive mtb tire, which could trap a piece of gravel and jam it into the gap.
Seriously, wheel lockup of the type described here is of zero concern.