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01-25-08 | 01:13 PM

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Sheldon Brown

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Originally Posted by danimal123

Sheldon Brown's site says its OK to not use a lockring (i.e., put a fixed cog on the freewheel side of a flip-flop hub) as long as you have a brake (and don't want to skid, I suppose). No mention of loctite at all.

No, it's only OK if you have TWO brakes.

I DO recommend LocTite for this application.

See: http://sheldonbrown.com/fixed-conver...l#freewheelhub

Sheldon "Redundancy" Brown

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