Originally Posted by mattface
I'm just putting this out there for the mental ************ aspect since I don't personally intend to try it:
say you've got rear wheel you really like with a nice freewheel hub. You want to convert it to fixed and don't want to make it a suicide hub. Couldn't you take the whole wheel to a good machinist, and have him lathe down the leading edge of the threads, and reverse thread lock ring threads? It seems like most freewheel hubs have a wide threaded area. There should be enough material there to do this? Is this really crazy, or is it just crazy enough to work?
Now this IS suicide. A top shelf hub will have just the right amount of material to make it strong. Not lots of extra weight creating material to confound the marketing department.
Example.
The new Campy hub weighs 100 grams more than last years for you fixed gear enthusiasts who want to machine some of it off.
