Affix Hub - Crazy Funky Fixed/Free Hub w/out Flip-flopping

[MaraudingWalrus]

Bought a silly thing off of the 'bay (https://www.ebay.com/itm/Affix-FREEFIX-Hub-Fixie-cassette-hub-fixed-or-freewheel-1-sprocket/253425868549?hash=item3b015bdf05:g:TuoAAOSwgQ9VwT6 o).

Affix hub, does both fixed and free by flipping some sort of clutch mechanism, no tools, no flipping of the wheel required. I remember seeing about them way back in the day when they were new. Very short lived.

Small pile of them being sold new on ebay...anybody had one? How badly did it blow up?

[mcfarton]

Is that a disc break


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[MaraudingWalrus]

Is that a disc break


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It is not, it's the actuator for the clutch mechanism that swaps from fixed to free....somehow.

[MaraudingWalrus]

Got the hub in, it's pretty nifty. You can see the big extra ring, which is the lever/switch used to swap between fixed and freewheel.

it has a small (normal mtb style singlespeed) splined freehub body. The second picture shows it in the freewheel position, the third shows in fixed. The big black disc pushes the smaller silver disc into splines in the hubshell, and then the black disc twists to hold it in place. The fourth picture shows it all disassembled, and you can see the silver disc (center/left) which fits into the splines of the hubshell that does the locking, and then the bigger disc which is the actuator for lack of better words.

The fifth and picture shows where the silver splined object sits (and the springs it pushes against), the sixth picture shows it sliding into place. I'll grab a video when the wheel is built later tonight and update. We'll see how this thing works in the long run (I've heard not well).

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180308/364e60c7c61d3217e733f48e0982e9da.jpg

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180308/a758b49a9c559e51fa6cecc9c0971f2d.jpg

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180308/741f9e7b266785fe83d8fb6e657ec27c.jpg

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180308/f3a65dbb5a7db2e86df285905da2ed1d.jpg

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180308/633d29194423ccc5a9f51d764ffb968c.jpg

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180308/ac8ad553ac8a222cb5cb2907c51a9984.jpg

[muz]

This looks like a solution in search of a problem. I choose to ride fixed for the simplicity. I also never understood geared fixed hubs like S3X.

[MaraudingWalrus]

This looks like a solution in search of a problem. I choose to ride fixed for the simplicity. I also never understood geared fixed hubs like S3X.



Oh this definitely is an accurate summation. The problem thus solves is not having to flip a wheel around to swap between fixed and free. Not a huge problem. But technically a problem, I suppose.

I also have a bike with an S3X. It's all quite silly. I enjoy very silly things.

For the $50 I spent on it, it was cheaper than any other quality hub I could grab anyway, and I already had the hoop. So not too big an investment, considering I have nothing else to build this week!

[Drmojo]

hey Metin
as more of an ex fixed fanatic i agree
but these days....
If I was climbing for 4 miles or more and descending same in 67-73 gear inches
I might dig cheating and coasting
although our motto on Big Fix was: Coast to Coast without coasting
Same on Wheels North Santa Rosa to Seattle fixed all the way
sigh
I once had 4 Fixies
Sold you Quickbeam
Sold pink Coppi
Indy Fab was stolen

[gry118]

Oh this definitely is an accurate summation. The problem thus solves is not having to flip a wheel around to swap between fixed and free. Not a huge problem. But technically a problem, I suppose.

I also have a bike with an S3X. It's all quite silly. I enjoy very silly things.

For the $50 I spent on it, it was cheaper than any other quality hub I could grab anyway, and I already had the hoop. So not too big an investment, considering I have nothing else to build this week!



@MaraudingWalrus: How have you got on with the long term reliability of the hub and switching mechanism?

I am thinking about buying one.

[MaraudingWalrus]

@MaraudingWalrus: How have you got on with the long term reliability of the hub and switching mechanism?



I am thinking about buying one.I regret to inform that I've ridden the thing exactly twice since the post. It survived that fine enough.

And it's done great hanging on a hook in my parents' garage while I lived in a small apartment out of state. It'll make the cut and come along with me once my wife and I buy a house in the next few weeks. Maybe once it and I are in the same place again I'll ride it - but it may still just be a novelty.

I still maintain that it's kind of a cool thing, and that it's unlikely to kill you if it stops working in some fashion (although if it suddenly becomes fixed it'd be a challenge), and if the price is right I'd say try it.