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

yeah. :(

Could someone bring a spare mallet? I've not built mine yet.

Thanks.

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...

snap, have to quickly view a flat, then downham. The flat is close to downham, woop!

do you even need to view it? Sounds like a shoe-in to me

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

Rik speaks the truth.

If I were still fixed, I'd be running a bolt-on hub/sprocket... all thread-based polo hubs turn to butter pretty quickly (in my experience).

Or just go freewheel. You might as well make the change now instead of later.

Rik speaks the truth.

If I were still fixed, I'd be running a bolt-on hub/sprocket... all thread-based polo hubs turn to butter pretty quickly (in my experience).

Interesting,

http://www.velosolo.com/shopdisc.html

They seem to be planning to sell a 22 tooth bolt on cog. I might look at that if they start selling it.

Or just go freewheel. You might as well make the change now instead of later.

Yeah, but I have no idea where I am going to find a 24 or similar tooth freewheel. Or I have to get a whole new chainset, so that I can run a smaller chainring, but I'm not keen on spending that kind of money right now.

I used a 24t when I was fixed no probs.
But I made good use of the brake rather than putting all the torque on the sprocket.

Easy enough.

Em took a cog from a cassatte and make the six holes himself, so basically you can have any number of teeth you want, but remember, measure twice drill once

Em took a cog from a cassatte and make the six holes himself, so basically you can have any number of teeth you want, but remember, measure twice drill once

Sounds like a plan.

or as MAX would say Drill 8 times then try and find the tape measure.

Of course, I could loctite and rotafix it, as a short term hack so that I can play now. It's only for Polo, and not brakeless, I'm not too worried about going fast on it, and dying, but it seems a shame to risk the 24 tooth cog on a wheel with 2 spokes missing.

Glue... the polo cure all.

I think em used a normal fixed cog, and drilled it.

It was a splined Shimano DX cog (£3 from CRC) Drilled using an old disk rotor as a template.
From memory, Aitch is now riding that bitch.

Glue... the polo cure all.

+1

Of course, I could loctite and rotafix it, as a short term hack so that I can play now. It's only for Polo, and not brakeless, I'm not too worried about going fast on it, and dying, but it seems a shame to risk the 24 tooth cog on a wheel with 2 spokes missing.

Wouldn't it be the hub that'd die rather than the sprocket? Not such a big deal if the wheel's screwed anyway.

Can anyone provide a couple of Northern Monkeys with some crash space?

Andrew and myself are looking to come down for a weekend's polo, arriving Sat 24th July, going home the next evening.

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

Another reason for micro gearing?

(I stripped two hubs... Although one was with a 26t cog and the other with an 18 so could be as much cheap hubs as torque)

i've been running a 22t on a cheap 48h hub for a long time with absolutely no problems. I have a back brake but it's next to useless.

I used a 24t when I was fixed no probs.
But I made good use of the brake rather than putting all the torque on the sprocket.

Easy enough.

i used the very same 24t fixed, brakeless for ages. Absolutely no probs, surely its just down to installation error?

Likewise I've had a 23t on a cheap On One hub for the best part of a year, with no problems.

surely its just down to installation error?

I doubt it, I was pretty careful putting it on.

Well anyway, I'm going to loctite and rotafix it, that should do the job

Anyone about tonight. Any spare 97cm ish mallets to borrow?