The most important thing is you don’t screw around when it comes to pedal thread direction. It won’t work. There are 3 viable ways of doing the cranks: captain crank, BMX lhd cranks, and helicoil normal track cranks. Anything else is amateur hour.
For the hub there are various ways with the spline and 6b drive cogs that are out there.
Convergentshave on
Don’t you have to get a hub built specially for this?
I don’t know how it works with fixed but I remember like 20 years ago when this came out with BMX bikes you had to get a LHD hub, (profile was the only one that made them) because if you didn’t the threads would basically undo them selves while pedaling?
I don’t know if that’s something that’s been available?
Actually I guess my question would be why you would need/want LHD with fixed/single speed? It looks different?
SpaceTurtle917 on
I can’t imagine why you would need a different hub. We have left hand thread lock rings for a reason. The cog is never going to come loose.
Fixed_Sprint on
Makes sense on a Freestyle rig. Easier to do rail grinds. Any types of hub that don’t have threaded cogs won’t have any problems like white industries. But you run off the mill track hub wont survive with all of the driving torque only on the lock ring. Learned it the hardway.
Judiciary_Pag on
Just so very not worth it unless you’re doing FGFS.
stgross on
I would love to have it, simply because the way I use my bike I always get my right leg dirty, I suspect a left side drive would entirely fix it. It seems like a huge pain and cost to build a bike like that, I would do it if it was widely available.
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The most important thing is you don’t screw around when it comes to pedal thread direction. It won’t work. There are 3 viable ways of doing the cranks: captain crank, BMX lhd cranks, and helicoil normal track cranks. Anything else is amateur hour.
For the hub there are various ways with the spline and 6b drive cogs that are out there.
Don’t you have to get a hub built specially for this?
I don’t know how it works with fixed but I remember like 20 years ago when this came out with BMX bikes you had to get a LHD hub, (profile was the only one that made them) because if you didn’t the threads would basically undo them selves while pedaling?
I don’t know if that’s something that’s been available?
Actually I guess my question would be why you would need/want LHD with fixed/single speed? It looks different?
I can’t imagine why you would need a different hub. We have left hand thread lock rings for a reason. The cog is never going to come loose.
Makes sense on a Freestyle rig. Easier to do rail grinds. Any types of hub that don’t have threaded cogs won’t have any problems like white industries. But you run off the mill track hub wont survive with all of the driving torque only on the lock ring. Learned it the hardway.
Just so very not worth it unless you’re doing FGFS.
I would love to have it, simply because the way I use my bike I always get my right leg dirty, I suspect a left side drive would entirely fix it. It seems like a huge pain and cost to build a bike like that, I would do it if it was widely available.