How-To/Mechanics: Disc wheel

how do u make a disc wheel a fixed gear?

Posted By: K3NNYDisc wheels are REALLY horrible for street use. Unless you live in a vacuum I wouldn't recommend it.

thats wat im thinking but how do ppl do it though

Posted By: alexisfastertheres a few different ways but the only reason is for polo. most methods use the corrugated plastic and zip-ties there are also kits out there. i see them on e-bay from time to time. i wade one by sewing canvas onto the spokes where they cross and at the nipples and then coated it with epoxy resin

huh

Posted By: sixspeedsome discs have track hubs that is threaded for a lock ring. if it has a shimano freehub, it can be converted to track/fixed using a surly fixxer. as for using it for street, it's somewhat IMPRACTICAL. they're cool looking, make a nice sound, but really only serves it's purpose if you plan to ride over 22 mph all the time. they're heavier so it's harder to accelerate, climb, and stop if you are riding brakeless. i tried it out on the street and it was fun on the long straightaways and crosswinds didn't pose a problem. it's real fast once you get going, but you lose low to mid-range. also, disc wheels can't be trued once they go off true.

does the surly fixxer really work

bump for the best discussion ever

If you get a Hed disk, they make a track conversion for it. Same thing with the Sugino Tyranno disk.

OH MY! Thanks!

I have a Surly part on my bike? Hahhaha....

This kid lives in my city

Basically, he has a white Hed Disk wheel. Usually with a road disk wheel designed for a cassette, people use a surly fixxer kit so it can be used with a cog/lockring. But this guy welded a cog onto the end of the disk so it looks like shit and can never be used properly by any biker ever again. He bought it like this for 400$ and tried to sell for 700, then 600, and got all the way down to 300 after many months. Now apparently it is sold

Posted By: ESRThis kid lives in my city

Basically, he has a white Hed Disk wheel. Usually with a road disk wheel designed for a cassette, people use a surly fixxer kit so it can be used with a cog/lockring. But this guy welded a cog onto the end of the disk so it looks like shit and can never be used properly by any biker ever again. He bought it like this for 400$ and tried to sell for 700, then 600, and got all the way down to 300 after many months. Now apparently it is sold

The thing is, you can't use a fixxer on the old HED's because they were spin on freewheels, not cassette based freewheels. There's a huuuuuuge hub difference between the two. Surly Fixxers only work on the newer (shimano style) cassette hubs, and certain ones only at that! They do not work on older cassette zipp wheels... But they do happen to work great on powertaps, so if you have a powertap road wheel, go nuts with a fixxer and run it on the track. What this dodo did was throw a cog on the freewheel threading and welded it after rattlecanning it. So not only is the threading screwy, and WELDED on, but also the chainline is going to be screwed up because it's set up for old old equipment. Nice work.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/freewheels.html

note the difference between a cassette hub and a screw on.

Posted By: the rabbii like my zipp 950 disc. freewheel AND track threading.

Unless you're running some very out of date 7 speed setup from the late eighties, early nineties (Sach's, Regina, Simplex, etc), the Zipp freewheel side is more of a relic. :)

I had a Regina freewheel setup on my used 1150 that was promptly thrown in the garbage.

I looked at my disk and it seems that only the axle was changed. Looked at the Surly Fixer and I definitely don't have that on. My LBS changed my axle on the Hed. I found some info.

DIY axle replacement.

Another one.

Posted By: mmediamansuicide lockring? (jb weld + locktight)

dumb. that's just ruining the disc.