frymaster

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

start worrying

Sixty Fiver

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 ?

frymaster

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

the1amradio

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?

Cynikal 

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.

Sammyboy

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.

diaper eater

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

stealinglight

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

kyselad

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

EatMyA**

This thread is now about JBweld

IbikezLA

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

bigvegan

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.

Yellowbeard

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.