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Yes, you're quite correct about the gears - Jeff (who was on the original Forum hard day in 2009) and the young rider (Tony Cosstick) were on gears, although that wasn't really normal at that time. The seventh rider (partially obscured, extreme right), as far as I can remember would have been on a single gear and pressures.
By the time I was good enough to be invited to ride (1986) everyone had gone over to gears. As has been noted many times, a group moves at a different rhythm on fixed as opposed to gears, so it's not really satisfactory to combine the two in the same group.
In the picture, the strongest rider was Martyn Roach (third from the left) although Jeff might have had cause to dispute that, but the others certainly would not have done. So Martyn could set the rhythm on his single fixed and not be challenged.
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I was 16 ish at that time and had a fixed winter bike too :). I can see a bike with gears though lol