So I've managed to acquire another vintage road bike - a Dawes Jaguar. Now I've already got a fixed gear bike for general getting around, and I'd quite like something similar, but a bit easier to actually train on - being able to freewheel on corners would be nice in some instances.
But I'm having trouble finding a dedicated road SS hub. There's plenty of track hubs around, but nowt with a freewheel.
I'm pretty sure it needs the old 126mm spacing, as my Raleigh did, but being springy steel it'll easily bend in/out to 130/120mm.
Anyone seen anything?
Can't you just screw a freewheel onto the fixed sprocket threads?
Goldtec do a SS/Fixed hub with replaceable axles so you can fit it to any spaced frame, you can screw a freewheel onto the fixed thread, as you can any fixed hub
I've read a couple of threads that reckon putting a freewheel on a track hub would work, but not engage all the threads. So the consensus was that it'd be fine for smooth/light riders, but not for mashers for fear of stripping the thread.
I do have a bit of a tendency to mash, and I'm not too keen on stripping threads!
i've run a freewheel on a fixed hub on singlespeed CX bike for several years, it gets a bit of mashing, it's been fine
loads of fixed/freewheel hubs out there.
I have a paul one thats super nice but pricey,
heres a surly one:
Novatec, Miche, Halo all do versions also.
Some you can space out to 126mm with spacers and others you'll have to bend the frame down to 120mm.
I have a Surly one, it's nice and comes in quite a few widths, quite pricy though. Charlie the Bikemonger has them I think.
Free/fixed combinations are often termed flip-flop hubs, you might have some success with searching for that.
Hmmm, I wasn't really after a flip flop hub, purely for bike-tart reasons! I don't want unnecessary unused threads cluttering it up!
But it does seem like the most likely option at the moment.
I have a White Industries ENO hub. It is a thing of great beauty. It has a fixed side and flipflops to have a screwon free wheel.
The really cool part is its an eccentric so u can use it on a frame with vertical dropouts.
i love it on my fixie
BMX hub like profile with a longer axle/female bolts??
Mind you, you don't get more tarty than Pauls or Phil Wood
I'm just going to use the hubs that are on there at the moment I think. They're pretty standard fare Maillard, but I think with a couple of spacers a DX freewheel should fit.
Then I've always got the option of going 1/2x6 if needed.
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I've read a couple of threads that reckon putting a freewheel on a track hub would work, but not engage all the threads. So the consensus was that it'd be fine for smooth/light riders, but not for mashers for fear of stripping the thread.
My take on that is that if it won't strip with a fixie cog, it's not going to strip with a freewheel.
Just screw it on a Miche Primato Low Flange and be done. You won't be undoing it by back-pedaling and hence you don't need a lockring.
Better still, ride it fixed and you don't have to pretend with the absence of a flip flop 😉
Sightly off topic but apart from Surly does anyone make a nice disc compatible 135mm fixed hub?