Fixed Gear - Longest Ride?
chainlincs
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Just been out with my club and astonished myself by managing an 85 mile ride (Gainsborough - Boothferry Bridge) on my fixed gear Surly Steamroller.
I'm feeling a bit sore but very happy. Just wondered what your longest fixed gear distance is and what gearing you were using?
I'm running 47 x 20 (63.5 inches) which was fine for today's mostly flat ride.
I'm feeling a bit sore but very happy. Just wondered what your longest fixed gear distance is and what gearing you were using?
I'm running 47 x 20 (63.5 inches) which was fine for today's mostly flat ride.
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I don't think I've ever ridden that far fixed. What's impressive about that is that you did that sort of distance on such flat terrain on such a low gear. You must have been spinning your cranks off to keep up!
IME when it comes to mostly flat rides you should ride a tall gear even if it means walking any really steep bits. Your average speed will probably still be higher. Or do as the tour riders used to do and run a flip flop wheel that gives a low and a high ratio, stop at the bottom of the hills to switch to low gear and then again at the top to switch back to high. Or, if you don't consider it cheating, get a Surly Dingle. Out Doncaster/Selby way I used to run 84" and hardly ever suffer for it, other than pulling away from junctions.
Well done!
Cheers,
GJ"Swearing, it turns out, is big and clever" - Jarvis Cocker0 -
About 55 miles - and that's as long as I've ever done fixed OR geared!
If I'm solo (nearly always) then fixed makes no difference - if too steep I walk! Nowadays I run c. 60", but that's just an age/abilty thing - about 64" up til a couple of years ago (and would still be if not for the one major (to me!) hill which forms the last mile or so home of every ride).
Enjoy your happiness (and achievement).d.j.
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i rode to southend from peckham a few weeks ago with a lot of other fixed wheel nutcases.0
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i did our ctc sections 200 in 24 last year, but was well trained up for it.i'd done several thousand miles on fixed beforehand.
it took us from whalley through kirkby stephen to penrith ,across to the lakes and back down through quernmore and scorton.
i'd done it several times on gears but have to admit it was a bit duaunting going on fixed as no one in the club had tried it before.
gear was the same as yours 47x20
i think one of our juniors may be trying it this year.it only takes one idiot to start a trend
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I think this beats all, around the world on fixed!!!
Read about his exploits:
http://www.gordontaylor.co.uk/
I can't imagine doing 5 miles with my dodgy knee's!
Streak[/url]I'm not so twp as to not know I'm twp.
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/ju ... Patten.htm0 -
Went from home to Ribble Cycles as I wanted some pedals, 80 mile round trip. Gearing is 42 x 15 which I think works out about 74’’.0
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46 miles, done on Sunday on a 64" gear over a hilly course. Furthest I've done on any sort of bike, so pleased with that.0
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"Furthest I've done on any sort of bike, "
You ARE well and truly hooked then I fear! Well done!d.j.
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My personal record is now the Severn Across 400km Audax last weekend. Chalfont St Peter -> Woodstock -> Tewkesbury -> Symonds Yat -> Chepstow -> Malmesbury -> Membury -> Henley -> Chalfont St Peter. A shade under 27 hours (and 30 mins sleep at Membury) as I'm not fast! 71.4" (46x17 on 700c x 25mm tyres).
But that's nothing compared to the hardcore Audaxers. Plenty do 600km Audaxes on fixed and I know at least 4 or 5 from the UK who did the 2007 1200km Paris-Brest-Paris (90 hour timelimit) and the 2005 1400km London-Edinburgh-London (118 hour timelimit) on fixed.
One guy managed more than 40,000km on fixed last year.--
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Streak wrote:I think this beats all, around the world on fixed!!!
Read about his exploits:
http://www.gordontaylor.co.uk/
I can't imagine doing 5 miles with my dodgy knee's!
Streak[/url]
Gordon was one of the Founding Fathers of the v1 Cycling Plus Forum and one of the riders who inspired many of us to take up fixedwheel.
Nice work on the Severn Across Greenbank. How did you find descending Streatly Down?0 -
Gavin Gilbert wrote:Nice work on the Severn Across Greenbank. How did you find descending Streatly Down?
I had the old vulcan death grip out on the brakes and about 50kph as enough for my tired and sleepy legs. It was just starting to get light then (I think it was just after 5am as I got to the petrol station in Henley at 6am). Still, I prefer going down it on fixed to going up it (might be riding the Anfractuous on fixed this year.)
The best descents were definitely Winchcombe and the final (well, halfway) spin down into Chepstow (although it takes an age coming after climbing up through Yat Rock and St Briavels).
Your club runs good events.--
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About 50 miles, but it's cheating a bit because it was mostly on the Bristol/Bath railway path which is flat as it comes!0
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Last year's Etape Anglais (c120 miles).
Still plucking up courage for the real Etape...0 -
rode to brighton on saturday from peckham
did ditchling beacon on a 74". cue gasps of admiration from spent-looking south african roadies as i 'grinded' past them.0 -
peejay78 wrote:rode to brighton on saturday from peckham
did ditchling beacon on a 74". cue gasps of admiration from spent-looking south african roadies as i 'grinded' past them.
Grinded? Ground? Grund?
"Swearing, it turns out, is big and clever" - Jarvis Cocker0 -
yes, probably "ground', but speaking as an english teacher, it still seemed like 'grinded' was the most appropriate participle....
'ground' is the one.0 -
"graunched" is the usual term.--
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