I’m looking at building a new set of wheels for the road fixie (drops & brakes) and wondering if it’s time to try a fixed wheel hub that uses a spline or bolt on cog.
There seems to be two options:
ISO/6 bolt cogs - Phil and Velosolo
Splined cogs - White Ind.
Has anyone run either of these and share the experience?
I used a sugino cog carrier system for a little while and I found that the alloy was so soft that it developed play between the cog carrier and cog, and as a result would loosen the lockring.
A mate is using a Miche cog carrier system and occasionally having similar issues.
I’ve heard nothing but good things about bolt on cogs.
A mate has a shimano XT front disc hub, uses it on the rear with an ISO cog. Been going strong for years. Can’t remeber if there were any implications for spacing or chainline but it’s easy to figure out. Match it with a non-disc XT hub for the front. Cheaper than Phils or WI, and surely as good.
This is certainly an option. This single biggest issue is replacement cogs, the flip side is that there’s no thread so unless you actually wear one out it’s no big deal.
I’m a fan of XT hubs for the right application, use them for polo with solid cromo bolt up axle - bombproof, cheap and serviceable.
I was specially asking about disc tab mounts to retro-fit a tab to and old GT frame.
Got one of Don’s Feng Shui to play with.
Didn’t know that did bolt-on track cogs.
Will probably go with Velosolo option as I’ve bought from them before and they are also very helpful.
Lovin’ these chainrings too.