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@Sam_Doman
Here's what I'm doing at te moment. Something a little different to the norm...
I'm running a front Hope XC hub on the rear of my fixed wheel bike with an ISO cog from 'London Fixie Bike' bolted to the disc mounts. My friend made me a special axle and spacer, so the hub runs in a 120mm spaced frame with perfect chain alignment and uses track nuts instead of a QR skewer. I'm also running a set of wethepeople royal BMX cranks upfront with a 43 tooth Profile imperial sprocket, which seems to work well.
Also a slightly different wheelbuild...It's a 3leading, 3 trailing snowflake with a single twist for each pair of spokes. Never seen it done before, just thought I'd give it ago. Seems pretty reasonable so far!
Here are a few pictures:
Sorry, the wheel's clearly only half built in this photo...
I know it's not the average setup for a fixed wheel bike, but I can't see any disadvantages over the conventinal, screw-on cogs, but there are many, obvious advantages!