Fixed gear road racing?

stickman

Good one! Do you know the ratio he had?

markos1963

stickman wrote:

Good one! Do you know the ratio he had?

He done it in top ffs! 50/12!!!! I offered to adjust his limit screws to give him a smaller gear but he said he would just cruise round

stickman

That's massive to me! I ride 46/16, I'd 48 if I lived in a flat area.

mz__jo

I can remember riders using single speeds in the Cheltenham town centre races back in the seventies; a tight flat track with cobbles on one of the turns meant no time for effective gear changing.

I think a certain number of TdeF riders in the thirties were using 3 speed freewheels without a derailleur. It meant stopping to change gear but no need to turn the wheel.

I didn't know that the UCI had banned fixed in time trials. That condemns me to riding single speed if I don't want to use gears; the FFC certainly ride under UCI rules; UFOLEP may just allow it (or turn a blind eye) unless one did something stupid like winning. Oh fortunate British testers.

Cheers Jo

stickman

After the invention of mountain bikes the biggest worldwide phenomen in cycling is fixed/singlespeed, there needs to be a sport to reflect this, at least something like a fixed or single stage in a tour whether a time trial or a long straight stage or whatever, crits, ss cyclo cross, ss mtb etc.

TommyEss

stickman wrote:

After the invention of mountain bikes the biggest worldwide phenomen in cycling is fixed/singlespeed, there needs to be a sport to reflect this, at least something like a fixed or single stage in a tour whether a time trial or a long straight stage or whatever, crits, ss cyclo cross, ss mtb etc.

We've been racing on fixed wheels for over a century - I even did it last night.

stickman

Yes, I think it's more important now, in the early 20th century people had to ride fixed (mostly), now they want to by choice.

EKE_38BPM

stickman wrote:

The good old days when bikes were bikes

Proper mudguards and a cover for the chain.