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Okay, thanks for the advice guys. I'm not convinced I didn't tighten the sprocket and lockring enough, as I was well aware of the pitfalls of not doing so. But one thing's for sure: when I rebuild on a new hub, you can be damn sure I'll get the sprocket and lockring very, very tight indeed.
From a slightly different angle then: if you were going to build a strong bike for serious daily street abuse, would you use cheap track hubs? In fact, is there anyone out there doing just this long term with no problems? See I'm getting the message that if fitted correctly, the lockring threads are very very unlikely to fail, so no not reason not to use them? And no reason to consider the alternatives mentioned above?