From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017052421474718447-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I only rode my fixie as a true fixie for a short while.  It didn't take me   
   > long at all to flip the rear wheel and make the thing into a very nice   
   > single speed. With a FRONT brake :-)   
      
   Every part of a bike, particularly the rider, is simply too fragile to take   
   those chances.   
      
   > That was doable because the rear wheel / hub was made to do that.  There   
   > is no offset of the rim from the hub centerline, and the hub has a single   
   > gear on each side. Same number of teeth on each side, one freewheels and   
   > the other one is fixed.  So to switch the mode of the rear wheel, take the   
   > wheel off, reverse it so the other gear is on the chain side, and tighten   
   > the bolts.   
      
   Wouldn't it be easier to have an arrangement similar to an internal multi   
   speed hub that instead simply locks the hub using a cable linked handlebar   
   mounted actuator trigger?   
      
   > Good you still have nice reaction time. I don't.  I'm slow :-)  And maybe   
   > just a lot more careful than in my younger days :-)   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   Since when Don't musicians have lightning fast reflexes?   
   Eric Clapton wasn't called "slowhand" because he couldn't play fast, only   
   because he wasn't particularly fast at changing out a broken string on his   
   guitar, or so the  story goes ;)   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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