[Industry_Hack]

Originally Posted by prcheney

The Hour comes with a flip flop hub so you can change it to a regular free-wheel pretty quick. If anyone's interested, you can read my in-depth windsor the hour review.

Just curious about this comment in your review:

"I don’t know a lot about this, but apparently most cheap, off-brand bikes (the ones I was looking to buy at this point) use weird parts that are hard to replace if they break. While BikesDirect bikes use older parts to keep their costs down, they’re still fairly standard."

Um, what?

[bfloyd6969]

Hmmmm, maybe he's referring to the fact that alot of the fixie crowd are into taking them very, very old road/touring bikes and converting them to fixies. Even then, with all the fixed craze going on, there is internet access to just about any conversion possible - perhaps just some more difficult than others. The fixed/SS bikes coming out today are more gear swapping friendly, but I agree with Industry Hack that these days just about anything is possible.

[prcheney]

That's just something I heard from a friend of mine at my local bike shop. He could be wrong, but it seems like a feasible way to keep costs down. It's not that the parts are used, just that they were manufactured a while ago. I'll ask him for more details and post back here.

[Industry_Hack]

I can only hope that you misunderstood him.

[bikebum1975]

Cool bike Mate. Toying around with doing up a fixie someday but the roads around here are killer with the hills