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aki
07-30-2007, 05:06 PM
Anyone try these yet? Any comments from Tarty? Looks awesome design wise.

http://www.echobike.com/images/partspics/hub/fixedrear135/hub-rear-fixed-135-red.JPG
Caesbiketrial
07-30-2007, 05:12 PM
i love that idea!! it is a fixed hub??
aki
07-30-2007, 05:13 PM
Yep :)
ewen
07-31-2007, 12:52 AM
there's no spring tension though. not sure if it will be that good
beastoftheeast
07-31-2007, 12:58 AM
deng thought of an idea himself? no way...
sethman
07-31-2007, 01:06 AM
as long as the spacers of the normal hub dont rotate i would give it a try.. thats all it is right?
hubertus
07-31-2007, 01:16 AM
I just received some of those and I tested them.
http://www.trialprod.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=58&products_id=168&language=en
They are great.
The tensioner alone is only 33g and it works very well.
You can get the tensioner alone (without the hub) but it can be mounted only on Echo fixed rear hub 135mm 2007 models.
Elan
07-31-2007, 01:16 AM
116mm hub + tensioner=normal hub spacing? wtf?
CoppellStereo
07-31-2007, 01:50 AM
deng thought of an idea himself? no way...

haha, i guess you didnt see my post, i'm pretty sure i was the first to do it, atleast i did it over a year before he did it and posted about it
beastoftheeast
07-31-2007, 02:05 AM
haha, i guess you didnt see my post, i'm pretty sure i was the first to do it, atleast i did it over a year before he did it and posted about it

fool, you could have made money. deng will release the echo risc in 2008 i heard.
davke
07-31-2007, 02:09 AM
its fixed tensioner, the chain could swing a lot. i would run spring tensioner
CoppellStereo
07-31-2007, 03:08 AM
fool, you could have made money. deng will release the echo risc in 2008 i heard.

i thought about it, but i knew he was going to copy it anyways! so i didnt really care, and if i did actually sell them, i would probably only sell like 10. but i did use mine for over a year with no problems, i just switch to king to see what all the hype was about, im thinking i like my custom hub better, but maybe i just need a better tensioner on the king
CoppellStereo
07-31-2007, 03:09 AM
its fixed tensioner, the chain could swing a lot. i would run spring tensioner

yeah, thats the problem using a freewheel: the freewheel wobble.
aki
07-31-2007, 03:51 AM
I saw that post on the other thread. The grips too...exact replica of Velo's!
FoxRacer
07-31-2007, 10:23 AM
those grips are velo's, so do try-all and viz sell them as theirs. I don't see a problem:D

I received couple of those hubs and have to say that they look pretty sweet. Also anybody who will want upgrade his hub to the new model can do it for small cash, no need of shitting with lacing wheel etc. Just take of your current spacer and put one of those tensioners. Oh I don't think that it will move, you screw wheel really hard...
desvio2000
08-01-2007, 06:30 PM
i run rear freewheel on fixed hub woudl that work on that hub? MAAAAD props on that.. this hub will be the end of horizontal dropouts
bushlawyer
08-01-2007, 07:26 PM
...the end of horizontal dropouts

where is this perfect dreamland you speak of?
desvio2000
08-01-2007, 07:38 PM
horz are a pain the ass to get the wheel centered it alwasts shifts around, and when u tension chain it affects wheel base.
Yurich
08-01-2007, 07:45 PM
horz are a pain the ass to get the wheel centered it alwasts shifts around, and when u tension chain it affects wheel base.
Proper dropouts (BT7) never shift. If you're keen in having a puny piece of metal hanging down holding your chain, you can put a tensioner on those dropouts (or use that echo hub)....The result - a bike that runs like any other bike, but with adjustable chainstay length, allowing you to play with the setting when you get bored of the bike