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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: rick1970 on June 04, 2011, 07:41 PM
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:LolLolLolLol: Ok chaps never been an expert on bmx race and never will be for sure always been freestyle for me and to be honest thats not great either :LolLolLolLol: so heres my thicko question ? flip flop hubs what on earth are they ? now ive recently purchased a set of ukais with suzui hubs and noticed both sides of rear hub are threaded to take two sprockets possibly different sizes :-\ Flip flop hub possibly or not ::) tbh im dreading the replies :LolLolLolLol:
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yep they're flip-flop :daumenhoch:
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One size (biggest) take a sprocket of 16t and upwards, they other (smallest) takes a sprocket of 15t and lower, I think :daumenhoch:
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pheww cheers for that delray as i thought :daumenhoch: what was the combo then bitd and why where they used seems strange then that they might change there mind in the middle of whatever they where doing :-\
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pheww cheers for that delray as i thought :daumenhoch: what was the combo then bitd and why where they used seems strange then that they might change there mind in the middle of whatever they where doing :-\
Flipflop hubs have been around since the dawn of BMXing, widely available in the 70's and 80's and mainly used on mini's with smaller front rings down to about 39t I think they were also pretty popular on the downhill tracks like Corona where you needed a big gear to keep up :daumenhoch: