That makes sense, you could use another cog on there as a lockring of sorts, and if you carried a chainwhip you could swap your fixed set. Or I suppose you could use your crank and chain as a chainwhip just as easily by using a stick to brake the crank. There must be a thread around here somewhere that touches on all the details of this, that maybe able to dispel all the myths I'm able to cook up in my head regarding simple and cheap two geared fixed gears with a third as lockring and superfluous 3rd option... freewheeling 13 until then I think -Kai
On Sunday, October 26, 2014 9:11:17 AM UTC-4, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > It's free/free, and I have a 22t free on the flip side. I was told I could > put on a fixed gear and it would work fine so long as I didn't do > aggressive backpedaling to brake (since I have brakes) -- so that's my plan > for "someday" when I try it out. But I definitely like having the freewheel > for single track, dodging rocks and roots and steep trough-trail sections. > > With abandon, > Patrick > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
