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The issues i can think of are chainline + possible wrong forces on the spokes?
The spokes are fine, when you flip the wheel round the spokes which were the pulling spokes for your brake retarding the bike are still the pulling spokes for your sprocket accelerating the bike.
Chainline on a135mm ISO rear hub should be about 53.85mm with a ⅛" sprocket, that should be pretty much spot on for the outer ring of a 2× MTB chainset, but quite a bit too wide to work well with a road chainset.
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I'm interested in getting a Cotic escapade as a fixed winter beater with the ability to run it with gears for touring. It's 135mm Spaced. Instead of getting a separate fixed rear wheel could I just get a geared disc rear wheel (10 or 11 speed freehub) bolt on a cog and flip it around for fixed?
I appreciate the aesthetics might not be great but would it work in theory? The issues i can think of are chainline + possible wrong forces on the spokes?