I have heard of people using fixed cogs on normal hubs with bottom bracket lockrings on there.
Im not wanting to do stunts on the bike, But dont want it to be undoing itself. Is it ok to use it like that? Ive got some SA screw on sprockets that I was going to try on a Maillard hub that Ive built onto a steel 27" rim. I respaced it, and redished it so the threaded part is near the drop out.

Anyway. I went to the second hand bike shop. I got a mint condition Hercules Balmoral 3 speed roadster, in green. I mentioned my hercules before. There was a ladies Balmoral there to, it matched, but was rusty. I got a Dawes touring bike. Small frame with okish parts on it. Large flange hubs on 27" alloys. A Raliegh Explorer. I think thats what it said. A 3 speed roadster with a humped top tube, like my gold bike. But this has 26" wheels. Well a front one anyway. I got a ladies Royal Enfeild 3 speed roadster for spares. I checked the wheels for corrosion. 74 9 date. They will fit on my Explorer. I got a Raleigh ladies Clubman mixte road bike. Its a 531 frame with Campag gears. I will use the parts on the Dawes.
That came to £50 for the lot. I took them to my work. I stripped the mudguards and wheels from the Royal Enfeild and the Explorer. I got those parts back on the bus. The frames will get brought back in my folding bikes bag. As its big enough for a normal frame.

It really depends on whether you're going to be braking hard with the pedals. If you're running with no brakes, I'd definitely suggest not doing it. If you've got brakes, and aren't given to skidding or hard back-pedalling, you might try it. Fixed hubs are pretty cheap these days though (given they bikes you have, I'd bet you have an old flip-flop hub with a lockring thread on it somewhere; they were VERY common on 50's/60's road bikes, and I've had 3 or 4 in my time)

I built up a old Rudge frame with a fixed wheel years ago.
with a front brake.
it had rusty rims and a bent crank.
so it sawed through a set of brake pads in a day....and my legs

I dont have a fixed hub. That one I had was likely to be a 40 spoke.
not got many rims with that many holes. Maybe a couple of stainless rims...too heavy.

I might go to the bike shop and search there wheel pile. Its a pyramid about 40 feet across and 15 feet high.
Im wanting a Raleigh Chopper I was told they had. Also might get a Peugeot racer for its 700c wheels and aero levers. They had a Raleigh All Steel to. But it was more All Rust. And looked about 23". Too big

Im getting chucked out of my house. So all of my stuffs going. Most of its getting chucked to the dump. Will get my bikes to the scrap yard, so can weigh them in for cash.

Im keeping some bikes back. My 20s might apear on ebay. If my friend will do that for me. Will give him most of the cash.
I showed him my Campag Athena cranks and mechs, and a 56 tooth chain ring. My box of various Jagwire pads. An SR blue bmx seat pin in its bag. And a 1541 commodore disc drive. I forgot about the Campag BB and tool I have. Will be other stuff too.
Going to cut out the SA AG hub from the BSAs original wheel. Its a 28 spoke hub. So is easier to build into modern rims. My other AG hubs are 40 hole. I was gonna build it into a 406 alloy rim. Its got good voltage.

Ive been messing with pics trying to get them on the Raleigh 20 site. But no joy. I cropped a pic down to under 600 wide. Still wouldnt take the photo.

So Ive uploaded more pics to photobucket, that I havent shown before

I had done some work on the bike. I had ripped the rear wheel to bits, then rebuilt it. Took the plastic tray off the carrier. Put the light in a hole on carrier, the bracket had broken.


left side of bike


After I modded the frame I fitted suspension forks and Solida racer cranks. I tried an SR stumpneck stem and bull bars. bit low and close though.


left 3/4 veiw when bull bars were still on it

My RSW. I think Ive got a thread on this. Well heres the bike on this thread.


I took bike to work and recut the fork and BB threads to the normal pitch. I built 3 speed 20 spoke alloys for it. I drilled the stem to run the cables in the forks.


Showing the cables coming out of the forks. The front cables too long.


The other cables only reach out of the frame tube and no more. There 2 metre cables. I guess its about a metre from handle bar to fork crown, then another metre to the seat tube, with the wiggly bit out of the forks. I know I could use an inline adjuster and more outer cable. But 3 speed cable would be difficult to get long enough

The wheels I had built for the RSW were from a Raleigh Max kids bike, I got from a charity shop for £6.

there single speed though. I had got another kids bike from the dump with mangled 16" wheels that had 20 spokes and a 3 speed hub. I cant remember what it was called. It was white with a square shifter that had a lever and a button on it. Those are rubbish. I put the shifter on my blue Falcon. It stopped working when going to town. I smashed it off the bars. :/
I had got another donnor bike from the charity shop. It was also £6. It was a dual suspension Y frame. I still have the wheels from it. The bike frame was in my big fire. I rebuilt the front wheel last night while watching the TV. It had anodising on it. So sanded the brake tracks smooth. And polished up the other parts with a brillo wire wool pad in soapy water. Looks nice. Was thinking I could build a Dynohub or drum brake hub into the other rim. I still have a few 40 spoke rear hubs. Not tried to build mismatched rims and hubs. Ive heard that SA brought out the S3B small diameter drum brake for small wheels. Well Ive got a couple of them from RSWs. But there 28 spoke, and my alloys are 20. As for getting a better spoke line with a smaller hub. Well Ive had RSWs with full size drum brakes and dyno front hubs.

I looked out the window this morning and the wooden board and wheel that were in front of my BSA 20, RSW, silver and gold Raleigh Phasers and Raleigh Cruiser, was lying on the grass. I stared hard through the early morning gloom and realised that some ones stolen my Chrome BMX. Hey Ive had 30 bikes on the grass for a few weeks and the theives turn up when there nearly all away. The BMX was frame, forks, chain and wheels. No bars or brakes. Just a cheap bike anyway. Had most of the bits in the garage for it.
I gave most of the bikes away to the second hand bike shop. And have given a lot of stuff to a neighbour that sells things at the car boots sales...er swap meets. I went downstairs and there was a note from him that he had seen an Albanian walking through the village with a silver bike and other things. He was walking his dog in the early morning. It might not have been an Albanian. Theres a lot of foreign workers at the factory and the farms.
I had heard kids shouting yesterday evening. They have stolen things from my yard before. As Ive seen them riding about on my bikes.
Later today my neighbour came round to see me. He was up for going to find my bike. Im just not bothered.
I looked on the grass and theyve taken a couple of stainless steel jugs that I had. Used to store stuff in them. I dont think the kids would have taken them.
My sister Janet was out again. She took over a tonne of scrap metal away. She had wanted the stainless steel containers. She took all my hubs and spokes that I had outside. Along with 50 or so wheels.
I was going to clean up the 16" rear wheel. To match the one I did last night. But some spokes are rusty. Doh. Got rid of all my spare spokes. Or have I? I have the spokes from some RSW and 20 wheels that I stripped last week. And theres a 9 speed MTB wheel that I was goning to strip for hub and cassette, to ebay. Its got chain gouging on the spokes. But only need 20 spokes for the 16" alloy. There stainless spokes too. Ive got a spoke threading machine.

I had a look at the 16" rear wheel. Its cog is the 2 pin remover type. I broke mine years ago. Just use a hammer and chisel on a faceplate hole. I tried it. But had my big chisel and it wouldnt go in hole enough. So I thought that the cogs rear rusty. So put chisel to its tooth and hit it. The freewheel spun off the hub. Guess that cogs for the scrap yard too.

I found a pic of my R24 when it had 20" wheels



I had cut the headstock and the BB then. I fitted a BMX mag wheel and a MTB deep V rim to the front. On the forks I now have on my BSA twenty. I was wanting to build a chopper then. Hence the big bars.

Whats happened to Photobucket? It takes ages to get to my album. Then it wouldnt copy the image address bit. Had to go back 3 times to get the image. GRRRR

Picked this up from an old Englishman today. Actually in pretty decent shape. Just needs a good cleaning and some attention to the brightwork. I love that it has the original (and working) hand pump. Just need to find a chain guard. I think I did well for $75.

And another pic of it on the maiden voyage

Oh just bumping this thread, as someone was asking for R 20 forks. Ive got the forks off my brown BSA 20. the ones with the bike with a basket. they are a sloping crown. Not a tube crown with thimbles.

I could take another picture of them and measurements.

As Ive said before. All my stuff is for sale. Its a scary meeting at the solicitors today. so the parts might have to go this week.

Ive got some of my bikes on my Flickr and Photobucket photo pages. Im Alecw35 on both of those sites.