hey, everyone. i recently purchased a track bike, it is my first fixed gear bike and i was loving it up until i moved into a very high traffic area. it's pretty stop and go, so i was considering getting a flip flop hub and making it a single speed since i can't seem to avoid stopping frequently. what i wanted to know is if there are any concerns in doing this.

You don't need a new hub, you can put a freewheel on the cog threads. As long as you want 16T or more, it's just like swapping a cog.

Yeah just chuck a freewheel on the other side of your hub. Depending on where you got your bike most bikes come with flip flop hubs anyway.

Other than a freewheel, your other concern is stopping yourself. Are your fork and frame drilled for brakes?

Or, in the alternate, do you own any parachutes or do you have giant brontosaurus-burger eating Fred Flinstone feet?

+1 on brakes. On a SS they aren't just nice to have. Gravity, it's the law...

Before trying to "just chuck a freewheel the other side of your hub" you should make sure you have threading for it. Most likely you do, but there is also a decent possibility you cant. Any hub with threading on both sides will take a freewheel.

+1

Get brakes too, if you don't already have them. Front and rear.

Thanks, everyone. I do have a front brake. I suppose I'll just have to take it to a shop to find out for sure if a freewheel can be put onto the hub. It is an older track bike, so it might not be threaded on both sides. That's usually how it is, yeah?

You can put a freewheel on fixed threads.

Fixed.