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I flipped the flop...

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Old 05-04-10 | 10:15 PM
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I flipped the flop...

... and didn't find it to be as much fun.

Back to the fixed side!

I was wondering why they bother making hubs threaded for a freewheel on one side, instead of the stepped threads for a fixed cog on both, since you can usually just screw a freewheel onto a hub threaded for fixed anyway?

Perhaps still useful if I'm doing a longer ride with steeper downhills, but for around town I'll keep it fixed. It's 12 miles of flat just to get to any significant hills, so maybe bring a 15 mm wrench and switch it over when i get out there!

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Old 05-04-10 | 10:21 PM
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I use both sides, I enjoy both sides.
A lot of companies make fixed/fixed flip flops though, track racers use fixed/fixed flip flops, maybe you could get one of those instead.
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Old 05-05-10 | 06:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Vixtor
I use both sides, I enjoy both sides.
A lot of companies make fixed/fixed flip flops though, track racers use fixed/fixed flip flops, maybe you could get one of those instead.
Yup, the Dura-Ace hubs on my track racing bike are fixed/fixed. Doesn't really matter tho, since I don't use lockrings on that bike anyways.
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Old 05-05-10 | 08:24 AM
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I had been riding mountain bikes and road bikes constantly all my life, and have been riding almost exclusively fixed for around a year. When I flip the flop, its now hard to ride with the same precision and its actually much harder than when I initially switched from freewheel to fixed back last summer. In fact my only crash this year was when I had flipped the wheel for a day and was trying out freewheel, it had turned so confusing and weird haha. Interestingly when I go bck home and ride my mountain bike, everything fine. But now I kick myself for having an ugly, heavy freewheel installed o my wheel, and not having invested in fixed/fixed to have two different cog options.
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