supercooper
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I have just bought a brand new fixie with a flip flop hub and done less than 50 miles on it when the freewheel started to spin both ways ,,,,,,,,,,,,,please help!
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Rohloff_Brompton_Rider
Formerly just_fixed
Sounds like normal for non white industries freewheel. It'll need an oil bath at best...strip n grease with new bearings at worst. No big deal really...loads of vids on YouTube
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supercooper
Well-Known Member
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I got it from wiggleTake it back from where you bought it. that's not really meant to happen
Shaun
vickster
Squire
Contact them to arrange repair
Rohloff_Brompton_Rider
Formerly just_fixed
Fair point, The cheaper freewheels, IME, never have enough grease or lube in them. Ensure you dribble lube into the new one - that way you'll be keeping the risk of seizure reduced. Or if your comfortable in your capabilities, strip n grease it before usage.Take it back from where you bought it. that's not really meant to happen
Shaun
phantasmagoriana
Guru
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- Glasgow
Flip the wheel and go fixed. No such problems. 
Rohloff_Brompton_Rider
Formerly just_fixed
This +1Flip the wheel and go fixed. No such problems.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
More a case of the opposite problem ... Instead of always freewheeling when you did not want it to, it would never freewheel when you did want it to!Flip the wheel and go fixed. No such problems.
What is the problem that causes this? It has happened to mine too...
anothersam
SMIDSMe
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- Far East Sussex
Flip the wheel and go fixed. No such problems.
Although traditionally it is recumbent riders who have been accused of going over to the Dark Side, I think it is time to put fixed riders there, too. Anyone who pedals every single inch of the way cannot possibly be trusted to ride a bike, let alone run a galaxy.
Needless to say I ride freewheel ss, and feel the forces of goodness and light whenever I coast.
