Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 268Location: somerville, ma
If it were clean, would it be super-easy or doubleplushard to slap a freewheel on my hub? Here is a picture of it. Would it be foolish to have a freewheel and only a front brake? I tend to think not, the rear is pretty useless anyway. Anyone have such a device, with 16 teeth?
I'm starting to miss my bike equiped with veloce gear ratio changing devices. It only needed a new frame, wheels, and drivetrain.
dennyt
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:24 pm
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Super-easy. Clean it, grease it, thread the bugger on. It will tighten as you pedal. No tools required, other than for your axle nuts.
Most people with freewheels use two brakes. Redundancy is good.
joby
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:25 pm
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keyholefish wrote:
If it were clean, would it be super-easy or doubleplushard to slap a freewheel on my hub? Here is a picture of it. Would it be foolish to have a freewheel and only a front brake? I tend to think not, the rear is pretty useless anyway. Anyone have such a device, with 16 teeth?
I'm starting to miss my bike equiped with veloce gear ratio changing devices. It only needed a new frame, wheels, and drivetrain.
Back brakes aren't about stopping the bike faster, they're about being able to stop the bike at all when your front brakes fail.
lantius
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:30 pm
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where is the video of the guy from sf track skidding his brakeless singlespeed? he just locks up the rear wheel using his foot.
Denali
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:32 pm
Joined: 28 Feb 2006Posts: 30Location: Eastlake
My buddy rolls a 17 t freewheel & just a front brake. He says its kinnda freaky if you get going really fast in traffic. But he likes it more than fixed
joby
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:32 pm
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lantius wrote:
where is the video of the guy from sf track skidding his brakeless singlespeed? he just locks up the rear wheel using his foot.
For many questions, thre's an "If you want to be cool" answer and an "If you want to live a long time" answer.
lantius
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:40 pm
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when i first started singlespeed bikes i rode a front brake only on a freewheel. i had some pretty scary close calls.
this is the point where dean would say "it's totally fine dude", but i would say "i'm not gonna do that again, i probably should have died."
Aaron
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:30 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 4645
NO!
Brake cables break!!!!! Not often, but sometimes!
Then again, all the neighborhood BMX kids I see run brakeless. (freewheel and no hand brakes that is)
Yeah, as soon as all my bmx friends started going brakeless, I decided I was too old for that crap.
Fucking nuts.
Aaron
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:00 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 4645
dennyt wrote:
Yeah, as soon as all my bmx friends started going brakeless, I decided I was too old for that crap.
Fucking nuts.
What, didn't you wear shoes? Mom's love when kids wear out thier shoes on the down hill!
langston
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:28 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
I raced BMX-dirt brakeless, and have at various points ridden all of my bikes without a back gear. It is unadvisable to foot-brake for long, it is quite hard on the wheel. Hard on the rider's longevity as well.
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keyholefish
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:37 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 268Location: somerville, ma
henry wrote:
What is the benefit of having one brake seth?
I think I used to have another brake, but I sold it or something...
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