Dan gives some great advice...watch out though as you will surely get hooked. I built up a Bob jackson last year to tear around on...then I built up a Dawes with off road tread to enjoy...now I am building up a Flying Scot with left side drive...fixed. All fixed! It is an illness.
Check out oldskooltrack.com as well for some different stuff! fixed to the urban extreme.
Walt
Falls Creek, Pa
> This is a subject that comes up regularly on the fixed gear list. You
> may wish to check out their archives.
> http://archive.davintech.ca/
> a track axle on a freewheel hub, you might wish to try out the quick
> release first. It will almost certainly hold fine. The freewheel
> threads are a little wider than the right hand track threads. The
> combined right hand and left hand threads of a track hub are about the
> width of a normal freewheel threading. You can thread a single speed
> freewheel onto a track hub with maybe a bit more than half of the
> threads engaged with no problems other than a slightly different
> chainline. Steve Barner also mentioned using a BB lockring to lock a
> fixed cog on a freewheel hub. Some people on the fixed gear list
> advocate it or even no lock ring or just locktite as a cheap conversion
> and have had little problems with it, but there seem to be just as many
> stories of cogs backing off at the worst times. As long as you have
> proper brakes, no lockring isn't a problem, but that kinda negates the
> purpose of the fixed gear. I personally advocate a proper track hub
> with reversed lockring. Most of us on the CR list are collectors and a
> fixed hub wheel can be built or purchased fairly cheaply if you wish to
> just try it out. Check out the fixed gear gallery for inspiration:
> http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/
> might just get hooked on it. I started riding fixed only three years
> ago, and I just put together my fourth, and still never ridden one on a
> track. Its a sickness. ;^)
>
> Dan Artley
> Parkton, Maryland
>
> >>> "Stephen Barner" steve@sburl.com> 03/12/2004 8:59:07 AM >>
> We recently had a thread on the topic of threading track cogs onto
> freewheel
> hubs (a pun there). Personally, I hold the opinion that a
> satisfactory
> setup is not likely to result from the use of a right-hand threaded
> lockring. Perhaps your mileage will vary, but it didn't work for me
> when I
> tried it 30 years ago.
> But, this brings up a survey topic. We are just starting the season up
> here
> in northern Vermont, where we have plenty of hills. You fixed gear
> riders
> out there...what are you running for gear ratios, and what kind of
> terrain
> are you riding? We did a similar thread at the end of last winter, but
> it
> would be interesting to see if anything has changed.
> --Steve Barner, Bolton, Vermont, where it is forcast to start snowing
> again
> in a couple of hours.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:58:45 EST
> > From: Bikerdaver@aol.com
> > To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> > Subject: [CR]Track hub Newby question
> >
> > Hello-
> > I have never done any track racing nor have I ever had a single
> speed, but I
> > am thinking that might change. I have a newby question that is
> probably easy
> > to answer for most folks on the list, so I could use some help. Are
> the threads
> > on a regular freewheel hub compatible or equal to the threads on a
> track hub?
> > That is to say if I have a Campy NR track axle complete with washers,
> nuts,
> > cones, etc., can I replace it with the axle assembly in a regular
> Campy NR hub?
> > >From what I know, it seems to me that the amount of threads to mount
> a
> > freewheel are basically the same amount for the track cog. Am I just
> doing some
> > wishful thinking or what? Cheers>
> > Dave Anderson
> > Cut Bank MT