Originally Posted by
Iowegian
Do these use true track hubs, ie with lockring, etc?
It is likely to have generic Quando hubs, which are okay for singlespeed use (not the smoothest bearings, but acceptable generally), but have been known to be problematic for use with a fixed gear and no brakes. It seems that in order to make the track hubs cheaply, without having to retool all of their equipment, they ended up re-using the shell of the freewheel hubs, and ended up with a hub that didn't have very many threads for the lockring to attach to. As a result, there were a number of failures where the lockring would break loose of the threads.
I've also heard that this was only a problem with the 'old' hubs, and that they did eventually retool all of their equipment and make a brand new hub with the proper strength for the task.
But I'm a bit foggy on all of this, so do a search and find out!