Screw on freewheel on a fixed hub thread?

Iv just bought a nice set of wheels from the bay but the rear hub is fixed only and i usually ride freewheel. What do people think about running a freewheel on a fixed hub?
Is it safe? Will puppies die?

Fine.

why would puppies die?

Surely, in an other dimension, there will be a small puppy resurrection.
Let the lord be praised, harmony is being restored. Yin meets Yang, and the cosmic order will (someday) reach another equilibrium

why would puppies die?

Taking something and bastardising it for another use.

it's not really bastardising anything, is it?

Well i thought the anti fw mob might have other ideas

well, you wouldn't be doing any permanent damage, so i wouldn't worry about the puppies.
it's really just using a screw-on freewheel for its intended use, innit.

You just have fewer threads than you would if it was a proper freewheel hub that's all. Even the people at Goldtec say it's fine.

This is absolutely fine, there is no such thing as an "anti fw mob".

Yeah i thought about the fewer threads thing and realised id still have the same amount of thread in use as on a fixed whel so should be ok
Im gonna go out n flip my current wheel around the now and if it dries up go for a ride and see how the cornering clearence is coz my cranks are 180s.

Sorry to dig an old thread up but I am a bit confused on this subject, because I was just told by my LBS that I would not be able to put a freewheel on my hub because its a fixed/fixed hub. But people are saying on here I can?!

How does it all work, can I literally just slip a freewheel on the thread and tighten it up, I know there are some freewheels that then you pedal they tighten, would this work?

I was thinking of grabbing this freewheel,

http://www.alansbmx.com/product_info.php?cPath=32_73&products_id=3061

As long as the chain and chainring are also 1/8 it'll be fine. If not you'll need a 3/32 one instead. But that freewheel will be fine on your fixed hub.

you can put a freewheel on a fixed hub.

How does it all work, can I literally just slip a freewheel on the thread and tighten it up, I know there are some freewheels that then you pedal they tighten, would this work?[URL="http://www.alansbmx.com/product_info.php?cPath=32_73&products_id=3061"][/URL]

****all ****freewheels will tighten every time you pedal, because it's a freewheel, it doesn't come loose when you stop pedalling unlike a fixed cog without a lockring.

the bike shop who told you this are merely looking out for themselves and never though about putting a freewheel cog on a fixed thread, so they don't know the consquence (at least that what I gather).

but it's perfectly fine, the contact area on the thread will be slighty smaller but plenty enough to run a freewheel cog.

I've had an Eno freewheel on a fixed/fixed On One hub for a year with no problem and I'm a 100Kg food hoover. Just do it.

+1

freewheel on a fixed thread will be fine

Thanks for that all guys, I knew you could do it, just mixed messages put me off, but I it will get done as soon as my the freewheel comes!

why you going freewheel on the hattara anyways?

I am not, its for my other bike

okay
hows it coming along?

Rad

Hi, i have utfs...no luck.
Question:
is there a type of screw on freewheel you can buy that threads onto a fixed thread?? (i have fixed/fixed hub - with a stepped thread on both sides for cog and lock ring application).

Thanks...
chris.

it will work

it will work