London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

I found a pair of unused phil hubs on ebay for £136 inc shipping.The back hub has freewheel & fixed and a width of 120mm and front hub is 100mm.

Isn't this quite cheap?

-j

ohh yeah, they have 8 pairs available.. if someone else wants to buy :)

yeah can regularly get them at that price.

Both Teensain (hope you don't mind the name drop dude) and I can attest to the fact that buying fixed/free phils is a big mistake. Once you start riding fixed, you will find the freewheel will sit and rust unused.

plus, you can mount a freewheel on a fixed thread, but not vice versa.

yeah I found universal cycles, so now I'm about to buy way to much stuff :)

What jaygee said, flip flop hubs are a stupid idea seeing as you can run a freewheel on a fixed/fixed hub anyway... And then you get two sweet Phil lockrings... They're made of magic, those things...

Treefort bikes will do fixed fixed as a special order, but I don't know if they like doing it, I was on the phone for about 20 minutes to get it sorted.

Fixed/Fixed is still a flipflop hub no? Thought flipflop was anything with 2 sides?

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_e-f.html#flipflop

Your correct Gizmond, flip flop hubs do indeed refer to being able to run gears on either side of the wheel whether it be fixed/free or fixed/fixed (go for fixed/fixed if poss, if you strip the thread on one side you will still have the thread on the other)

where? do tell!

hmmmm, I thought that was flip-flip (or maybe flop-flop)?

I prefer the look of single sided hubs, cleaner.

erhhh http://www.universalcycles.com/ :)

errhhhh thanks.

hehe np :)

Universal have discount codes too

VIP10 for 10% $100+ and VIP15 for 15% off $300

VIP15 worked for my Phils and S75 cranks before Xmas :)

Discount codes! That's a thread that needs to be started immediately! Nice work, Steve... :)

+1 about the thread of disocunts

there is one already for wiggle I think, but we can have one with all the shops

+ 1

I'm pissed off I have flip flop hub now... I'm going to have to build a new wheel with double fixed at some point when I have a bit more dosh...

Also a victim of the the Phil flip/flop purchasing jinx but I now use the freewheel side for my track gearing (get her, been to HH four times and he's got a track gear ratio) with a load of Loctite and a BB lockring.

So I've been looking at Dura Ace HB7600, and they look rather nice and sturdy. What is the "normal" price for these? I'm clueless (as usual).

whats wrong havin both ? ? ?

You have double fixed so you can have two different fixed cogs, as opposed to fixed/free. You can have road and track gearing if you ride fixed/fixed!

pretty but they do not have sealed bearings.

jus change the cogs then . . . then flipin it over . . .

^ not as simple as that. I need double fixed.

The freewheel is of no use to me anymore.

I bought the phils with freewheel/fixed. I never flip my current wheel over that has fixed/fixed. So I will probably not do it to much in the future. And it saved me a bundle of cash that I can spend on other fun things.

That Universal cycles website emailed me back saying they will not mark anything as a gift or as an item of low value, so be warned you may get stung by customs.

I ordered them from e-bay instead. And he would mark them down and as a gift :)

You get 'em from some fella in Coney Island, Brooklyn?

yeah, twelveicat, on eBay, it's the guy you told me about pistin! Good deal, I escaped customs, can't remember if he marked it down or gift or what...

stop- just one think about universale cycles; i bought a pair of 32 holes phils on ebay , and a 17 th. cog on ebay-----they send a 28 holes front- and a 36 hole rear hub--------the cog wasn´t available-so i had to wait 6 weeks for the cog and to pay two times shipping to germany- what a fuck..........

Yeah, that's the fella, mine arrived in about a week too, no customs charges either :-)

the gift scam is a complete lottery...

how much is custom charge anyway?

Depends what they feel like! 20 - 30% of the marked value, from my experience...

no, it's VAT they charge you. 17.5 percent.