Originally Posted by
Unkle Rico
I wonder if you could somehow spot weld a freewheel cassette so it was fixed or something like that?
Sure. But since you couldn't use a derailleur to change gears and take up chain slack, you'd need to stop, move the chain manually, and move the wheel in the dropout slot to take up the chain slack. And unless you have super-long dropout slots, you could only span a few teeth difference in cog sizes. May as well just use a flip-flop hub in that case.