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Can you remove brakes off a freewheel to make it into a fixed gear?
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∙ 11y ago
Depends. If it's a so-called flip-flop hub it will, if it's a fixed-only it won't. Flip-flop hubs have regular freewheel threading on one side, and the special fixed threading the other. But the axle may be too short.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoUsually not.
If the bike has a fairly thick rear hub, then the freewheeling mechanism is located inside the hub. Short of welding, or otherwise sticking internal parts together you can't turn those into fixies. Even if you could, you'd need to be really certain about how the hub is put together, so that back pressure on the pedals won't unscrew things.
If the bike has a fairly thin hub, then the freewheel mechanism is integrated with the sprocket, and can be unscrewed and replaced with a fixed sprocket. trouble with this is that the hub will be missing the special counter-thread section for a fixie lockring. Now you really run the risk of back pressure unscrewing things. It's called "suicide fixie" for a reason.
But if you run rim brakes, and never apply any back pressure, then a suicide fixie will do fine.
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