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Sand and more sand, WvA will go away and practice bunny hopping. Dire commentary as per usual from Marty MacDonald, it really is shit and I've heard some bad ones.

Not seen dropouts like that before, interesting.

Will have a look, don't want to pay a lot though, I bought this bike on Ebay, I've done all the work on it myself including building a wheel without spending much at all. It's funny, you go out on a ride and carbon bikes with disc brakes and 50-60mm deep wheels are ubiquitous round here. My humble fixed has had so many comments from the aforementioned, the most common being "nice bike".

Just had a quick gander, some very odd-looking bikes there.

Aluminum track nuts, didn't know they existed, surely a contradiction in terms. I've stripped alu threads with half the force I do my track nuts up with.
yak, what exactly did you do wrong? May have missed something here.

Agreed, never had mine slip either. it makes you wonder why anyone sells them, however, I live out in the sticks and Oct - Nov is hedge cutting time as in Hawthorn and Blackthorn and I ride a lot in the dark. In case of a puncture I carry a short 15mm spanner with me with which I cannot get the same amount of torque on the nuts, hence a single chain tug on the drive side for peace of mind.

I can see 2 ways to sort this out, message the Ebayers and get them to measure their chain tugs or buy a couple and fashion the back plate myself, though I'm thinking that any metal worker could knock one up in 5 mins.
I have zero knowledge of BMX so I have no idea if their dropouts are especially thick, is there anyone on here who has that experience? I know my bike is a bit special but didn't realise it was so different in reference to the dropouts. Just had a look at my other fixed, a Pearson, and the dropouts are within the same width [no chain tugs] so not that unusual after all. Given that the Pearson is not a rare bike, mine's a Touche if anyone here has one with chain tugs on other than surly's I would be grateful to know what they are.
Thanks for your input ce, I'll take a look anyway

Bike/frame is a Brian Rourke 853, chrome forks and dropouts, driveside chainstay also chromed. The chrome on the dropouts probably accounts for the extra thickness. I tried one from my friendly lbs mechanic, a fairly bog standard sort of thing you see on Ebay but it was 1mm too narrow and also too thin to file down. I am aware of the surly and the like but too much money and for me a bit too fancy for a bike {in my humble opinion] with such beautiful clean lines.
Thanks for the replies, going to have to think about this.

This is a where to find question, the dropouts on my fixed are 8.1mm thick, anyone know where I can obtain chain tugs that will slot over these?

Long time fixed rider out in the sticks