Retrobution?

Sometimes things just works out by them self, to me it happens very seldom but this time multiple things just "clicked"!

In preparations for Ronde van Retaard in September I bought a cheap rear wheel at Biltema, the plan was to use the rim and spokes for a wheel together with the Surly hub that was left over after I geared my Pugsly.

The thing was just that the Surly hub was equipped with a free wheel that's basically stuck where it was (hard to make a straight chain line) and to make things worse the flanges were noticeably bigger so there was a big risk that I had to buy new spokes and the cheap option was going expensive...

Then it hit me that I still had the rear hub from the old wheel left, if it was a 36 hole hub I could perhaps use it, after some extensive search and rescue expedition I managed to find it in a cardboard box, hidden away in a dark corner and to my surprise it turned out to be a 36h, and the flanges was almost identical size as on the Biltema wheel!!!

Built the wheel last night and everything went well, the spoke lengths worked perfectly. Today I started to think what gearing ratio to use. When testing old gears I had laying around I realized that the newer gears has a different pattern for fitting the body, I knew it was going too well!

The old hubs has a screw-on gear that keeps the rest of the gears at place on the hub, that has threads for this purpose. Then I decided to screw on the "lock" gear on the hub just to see if it might work. I turned out to work perfectly and the chain line was spot on! Time to run and buy lottery ticket?! :)

This is how it turned out. Hard to make a cleaner looking single speed solution on a hub set up!
Straight enough for me!
And this is how it looks from the side:
Went out for a short ride to make sure it works like it should and it was perfect! I really like the sound from the old hub when free wheeling.

Did a ride around Hagge for starters. Kept good pace, had to, since I only got one gear! ;)