Re: [CR]Setting up a single-spd FW on a fixed hub!?

From: "Mike Waite" <mrwaite@btinternet.com>
To: "Paul Williams" <castell5@sympatico.ca>, "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Setting up a single-spd FW on a fixed hub!?
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:07:17 -0000
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Hi Paul

I've done this on my bikes and others for about 50 years and never had a problem. Just watch that chain alignment from the single freewheel will be slightly different, but no real issue.

Mike Waite
Amersham
Buckinghamshire
England
UK

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Williams
To: Classic Rendezvous
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 1:52 AM
Subject: [CR]Setting up a single-spd FW on a fixed hub!?

> Hi all,
>
> Some experienced advice needed here - can a single-speed freewheel be
> set up on one side of a fixed-fixed hub? If so, are there any issues
> which should be considered? Any problems?
>
> TIA.
>
> Paul Williams,
> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada