are you living in the same alberta as the rest of us?

start worrying :)

Nope...still not worrying.

I just realized where you are... nice to see so many Canuckistanis here.

Are those fries from Peter's Drive In ?

burger inn, actually. i mean, have you tried riding down 16th avenue? not worth it!

Sorry to bring this thread back from a few months ago, but I have a new wheel on my bike and some track cogs lying around as well as the old wheel. I thought I might try putting the track cog on the wheel and running around town on it before I decide to drop the money on a real fixed wheel. I have both brakes since it's a SS, so that's not much of a concern. The problem I have is that when I try to thread the cog onto the wheel, it just stops and won't thread on ANY more than maybe 3/4 of a turn. I'm not sure why it doesn't want to go on, are the threads different? Am I just not using enough force to get it on?

Give the threads a good cleaning on both the hub and cog. Generally speaking, they should have the same TPI's. Some hubs have a different lockring tpi but not the freewheel.

Are you guys serious? Clearly you don't know a great deal about what a good coded welder can do. Someone who know's what they're doing with a TIG torch can weld aluminium foil to the side of a ship. The problems with welding different materials come from their different melting points, so if you try to weld steel and aluminium with a MIG kit, the aluminium is gone before the steel melts. A TIG torch allows you to regulate both the position of the torch, the position/progression of the filler, AND the amount of current to the torch (this can be changed on the fly with a footpedal). This allows a skilled welder to join materials of different thicknesses, or different materials. It's absolutely possible.

my jb welded suzue hub mated with the cheapest cog and lockring available lasted over a year before finally slipping. i had it jbwelded due to stripped threads, not due to suicide setup

my jb'd freehub lasted about 3 months of heavy city riding

Freehub? I thought this (long dead) thread was about fixed suicide hubs.

This thread is now about JBweld

I'd stick with a freewheel single speed. They're called suicide hubs for a reason.

Dude, quit screwing around and put a $90 track wheel on the credit card.

You can screw around with some things safely, but this isn't one of them.

Like people have said over and over and ****ing over again, suicide hubs are NOT aptly named. If you really want to quit screwing around, add a $30 brake to the rear wheel (in addition to the front) and keep a perfectly good wheel in service. At least if that cog should happen to come loose it won't destroy your cheap hub in the process.