We are all accustomed to the regular set up on most bicycles, fixie or otherwise. The chain goes around the sprocket on the rear end rim and pushes you forward. This is certainly always the case, even when you have a fixed gear bike. Its just you must pedal harder. For this reason a flip flop hubis generally such a revelation in the proper hands. Just what exactly is it and also why is it so useful?
Well generally the one sprocket drive set on a fixie rear rim is virtually all you have. Pedal even harder or quicker to go up a steep slope and to manage your descent. This is great for almost all fixed gear owners. But sometimes you may actually want a rest or maybe help climbing the larger sized inclines. It takes time to master a fixie and to improve your stamina. So a flip flop hubis the answer.
The way it operates is that on the opposite side of the regular sprocket, you fit either a second sprocket or a freewheel unit. This way you can turn the rim around to change the gearing or to permit coasting as well. You can have several combinations either higher or lower to fit where you are going and the method that you want to do it.
So a flip flop hubis really an added piece of versatility to your fixed gear bicycle, without compromising on principles. Yes you are able to effectively 'change' gear but all you are doing is making a change from one fixed gear to another fixed gear.
You eliminate none of the purity of fixed gear bike riding or the contact with the track that is certainly so special. However it could open up all kinds of new opportunities and challenges which you never considered possible without it. Hail to the hub is what I say.
Well generally the one sprocket drive set on a fixie rear rim is virtually all you have. Pedal even harder or quicker to go up a steep slope and to manage your descent. This is great for almost all fixed gear owners. But sometimes you may actually want a rest or maybe help climbing the larger sized inclines. It takes time to master a fixie and to improve your stamina. So a flip flop hubis the answer.
The way it operates is that on the opposite side of the regular sprocket, you fit either a second sprocket or a freewheel unit. This way you can turn the rim around to change the gearing or to permit coasting as well. You can have several combinations either higher or lower to fit where you are going and the method that you want to do it.
So a flip flop hubis really an added piece of versatility to your fixed gear bicycle, without compromising on principles. Yes you are able to effectively 'change' gear but all you are doing is making a change from one fixed gear to another fixed gear.
You eliminate none of the purity of fixed gear bike riding or the contact with the track that is certainly so special. However it could open up all kinds of new opportunities and challenges which you never considered possible without it. Hail to the hub is what I say.
