NE London Bike Polo: Wednesdays: Mitchison Road N1 / Weekends:Hackney Downs E5

Ok, forget about that.

I managed to fuck up my polo bike before I even played on it. I did a skid this morning, the sprocket slipped, and the locking came right off. I had a look at it over lunch, and while the lockring looks okish, the lockring thread on the hub is entirely fucked.

So unless someone has a spare rear wheel I can borrow/buy, I'm going to have to wait with Polo until I've got a new hub and build up a new wheel. It has 2 broken spokes anyway, so it's probably best in the long term, just fucking annoying when I was so close...

with a 24t in the back, skids are a no-no as the torque you put on the hub is huge.
you have a polo bike now, not a fixy-skidy bike, by sensible with it
in the other hand, Joe (teenslain) did 3 hubs in 3 week, one of the a Phil or a Goldtec, and he was not skidding, so the bad luck is also a factor