Everyone is accustomed to the regular set up on most bikes, fixie or otherwise. The chain runs around the sprocket set on the rear end wheel and drives you forward. This is always the situation, even when you own a fixed gear bike. Its just you need to pedal even harder. For this reason a flip flop hubis generally such a revelation in the right hands. What exactly is it as well as why is it so handy?
Well generally the single sprocket drive set on a fixie back rim is all you have. Pedal stronger or faster to ride up a steep hill and to handle your descent. This is perfect for almost all fixed gear riders. But at times you could actually wish for a break or even some help climbing the bigger inclines. It takes time to master a fixie and to improve your strength. So a flip flop hubis the solution.
The way it works is that on the opposite side of the normal sprocket, you fit either an additional sprocket or a freewheel unit. It means that it is possible to flip the wheel around to change the gearing or to allow coasting as well. You can have several combinations either higher or lower to match where you are going and the method that you want to do it.
So a flip flop hubis really an added bit of flexibility to your fixed gear bike, without compromising on principles. Yes you can effectively 'change' gear but all you are doing is changing from one fixed gear to another fixed gear.
You get rid of none of the purity of fixed gear bicycle riding or the contact with the street that is so extraordinary. But it could open up all sorts of new opportunities and challenges that you just never believed possible without it. Hail to the hub is what I say.
Well generally the single sprocket drive set on a fixie back rim is all you have. Pedal stronger or faster to ride up a steep hill and to handle your descent. This is perfect for almost all fixed gear riders. But at times you could actually wish for a break or even some help climbing the bigger inclines. It takes time to master a fixie and to improve your strength. So a flip flop hubis the solution.
The way it works is that on the opposite side of the normal sprocket, you fit either an additional sprocket or a freewheel unit. It means that it is possible to flip the wheel around to change the gearing or to allow coasting as well. You can have several combinations either higher or lower to match where you are going and the method that you want to do it.
So a flip flop hubis really an added bit of flexibility to your fixed gear bike, without compromising on principles. Yes you can effectively 'change' gear but all you are doing is changing from one fixed gear to another fixed gear.
You get rid of none of the purity of fixed gear bicycle riding or the contact with the street that is so extraordinary. But it could open up all sorts of new opportunities and challenges that you just never believed possible without it. Hail to the hub is what I say.
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