numpty question

Posted on Mon 16th, April 2007

• #1

big_daddy_wayne

can you put a freewheel on an ambrosio fixed/fixed hub?
• #2

rpm

yes.

but don't
• #3

Velocio

Yes, and do.

Or rather, why the hell not?

I keep the other side of my flip flop with a freewheel, came in handy last week or whenever it was that the locknut broke.
• #4

lpg

For some reason, a Fixed/Free Phil hub costs £5 more than a fixed/fixed. I wonder why?
• #5

rpm

the chainline won't be the same with a double fixed using a free/fixed combo

I don't suppose it matters that much for the freewheel side?

basically it's the same thread, but the freewheel side on a flip-flop has more of it, and no lockring thread.
• #6

Momentum

The chainline will be the same. As you say there are less freewheel threads (because there are some lockring threads), but they finish at the same point where the hub flange starts. So the freewheel will screw on the same amount and so chainline will be the same.
• #7

rpm

{pedant} but the freewheel is fatter, so the teeth sit about 2mm further outboard than the teeth on a fixed sprocket.

{/pedant}

innit?
• #8

dizzy

Hmmm
• #9

user7817

Man I love reading these early threads
• #10

dizzy

Hmmm mmmmm

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