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Old 10-01-07 | 01:44 PM
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krash
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Originally Posted by LóFarkas
That's a perfectly reasonable SS, perhaps a commuter bike. I don't see why one wd use a freehub but then it will work just fine so who cares.
Well I guess since I won't commute on it, I wouldn't think of it as a commuter bike.

I kind of was on the fence about the wheels and hub but I picked the freehub wheel mostly because it eases chain line problems with a MTB crankset, and regular standard road wheel sets with cassette hubs are far less expensive and lighter weight compared with dedicated SS wheels. Likewise it is much easier to work out gearing and even allows me to run a couple of cogs easily for gear changes without flipping the wheel. You can buy several cassette cogs for the cost of one freewheel. Seems to me track hubs only really make sense if you are going to run FG, and I am not. So in the end, the cassette freehub road wheelset just made a lot more sense for my application.

That's the nice thing about just whipping up what you need from scratch. You get just what you need and don't have to conform to anybody else's idea of what's right.
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