Batavus

Well, I guess I'm on my own here with this experience. Maybe I'm just too sensitive ;-) Oh and chain tension was right, def not too tight, The bike is a Wabi Lightning with proper horizontal track ends for chain tensioning. Thanks everyone!

PedallingATX

no flip, mash!

gotmyusernamechanged

yo my dude this is a family-friendly forum.

Six jours

I use a fixed 19 on one side and a free 24 on the other. I change it on a regular basis. On long rides in the mountains I might change it half a dozen times. It has never been a problem.

I can't imagine why anyone bothers with a one tooth difference. I don't see how it would even be worth the effort.

b.w.

I ride a 46 tooth chainring with a 17 tooth fixed cog on one side of the rear wheel and a 16 tooth freewheel on the other. The difference is plenty noticeable for me. I generally prefer to ride fixed, but sometimes it's fun to ride in the slightly faster gearing with the freewheel. For the terrain I generally ride, a 5 tooth difference on the rear wheel just wouldn't make sense. I'd rather have two different, but relatively general purpose gearings that I can ride pretty much wherever. Just my $.02.

Six jours

I'd just turn the pedals a few rpm faster and keep my hands clean. Each to his own...

Josher

I was wanting to take the freewheel off my flipflop and put another fixed cog on in it's place... is this possible, or are the threads different? I've checked out Sheldon, etc, but haven't been able to find this info.

wroomwroomoops

Yes, you can do this. Make sure you rotafixa the cog onto the hub, possibly with some loctite, and add a bottom bracket lockring.

ScottNotBombs

I recently added racks, a rear brake, and a ss freewheel to mine for longer rides... I did 80 miles on it the other day and flipped back to fixed when I was done

ebrake

So do you add/remove chain links every time you flip the wheel? That's a huge tooth difference I can't see how you wouldn't have to. Too me that would be way too much work for the benefit, why not just go with a geared bike?

Six jours

Campagnolo 1010 dropouts with the derailleur tab removed. They handle a five tooth difference but not quite six.

geeknerd99

i flip to a 20T SS cog for polo, and then swap back to the 16T cog for day-to-day. it's about as much as i can fit in my track ends.

the_don

I never flip flop. I like my 48x15 ratio. It is perfect for Tokyo riding. I want to get a low flange Mack hub so that I can have a sweet lightweight hub that is un-flippable so that everyone knows how awesome I am!

Batavus

Hey Don, where can you get those Mack hubs?

Soil_Sampler

https://www.mackhubs.com/

joblue

Many many many of my clients spec a flip.flop hub, but many many many of them never actually "flip the flop"...from what I see with new clients, they seem to know the phrase as a buzzword, and know they want one, but really aren't sure what it is.