Originally Posted by wildwildebeest

Hello
I'm thinking of building a singlespeed bike. I have a frame with vertical dropouts and was hoping to get a flip-flop hub with one side fixed and one a freewheel. I've heard that you can tension the chain enough simply by sensibly choosing the cog sizes and by removing links or half-links from the chain... is this really true? if this is not the case, I'd have to get a chain tensioner and that would spoil my whole fixed gear idea...
Am I gonna have problems with building this? (without an eccentric hub/BB or anything)

Any help much appreciated