Old 05-14-12 | 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by prooftheory
I thought that a suicide hub was putting a cog onto a non-fixed gear hub and expecting it to be okay. Soo__Fuego was suggesting the opposite, that you can put a freewheel onto a fixed hub.
Yeah, I think IthaDan misread. There is nothing dangerous about threading a freewheel onto threads for a cog. The reverse(threading a cog/BB lockring onto freewheel threads, which is called a suicide hub) is dangerous or at least unadvised.
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