Originally Posted by goatmeal
Come on, I gotta make my bike look pretty....
God knows I am doing a hell of a job myself, I wear my greasy chef pants and skull cap around most of the time, even when I am not working.
And I don't have a Langster to put the wheels on, although I do have my PISTA which wouldn't work with the Phil hubs I bought NEway (126).
I got a better job and all of my bills paid of so I have some extra $ to spend on "commuting" expenses, call me a style queen, I don't see that as a negative really by default.
I have a lot of Phil hubs and the only time I ever had any trouble as on the front fork dropouts of one bike that has a wider slot than the others. The Phil seemed to slide around a little making it hard to center the wheel in the front fork without a lot of hassle. The solution was to change to another style of track hub from another maker with Track nuts and washers and move the Phils onto another bike. I have never had a Phil slip on the rear track drops and I ride a lot of hills. Just use enough force to torque them down and you will be ok. I have one of those long allen wrenches and I carry and use that rather than the shorter variety. You could use your foot on the shorter one but I think that is kind of crude, and inexact.
fixedgearhead