Fixed Gear Australia Circumnavigation Record Attempt

Happy Anniversary to you Joseph! Your madness is truly inspiring. Australia is amazing, and reading about your adventures has been awesome. Superb thread.

So good

I love your work.

@Thrasher Don't think Race to the Rock is going to materialise for me this year, unfortunately. I am daydreaming about something big next year though...!

@Drano - I am REALLY bad at getting round to making videos, I'm sorry! I'm going to have to get on with making the loop series before I forget everything! All things Australia are currently in this playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdlNa8VmR_g&list=PLbhq_PpBKBmEmldDiuzI7OVq8QJKPpJgQ
&v=SdlNa8VmR_g

Thoroughly enjoying the updates on this thread. Looking forward to what you've got planned next Joe!

Hey guys, just edited together the first half of the footage from the anniversary road name ride. Let me know what you think. I need to get round to telling the actual Australian loop story but editing this helped with trying to figure out the editing style I need to use.

Let me know what you think!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bIdCp9McAt0

Part 2/2 of the celebration ride:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sbjful9Nt6w

Yeah, A5 sucks. Enjoyed the vids!

Mega ride @veganjoseph. What ratio did you use and what was the total elevation if you don’t mind me asking?

3,136m / 10,289ft of total gain according to the uploaded file. Take that with a pinch of salt though because recorded on an iPhone!

http://strava.com/activities/2596430593

Was using 48/19 with a 28mm rear. Quite spinny but hadn't done any long rides in a while (this was my longest since finishing Australia) so didn't want to risk it with too big of a gear. Now I've been riding a bit more, it's definitely too spinny of a gear. Gets a bit hectic on descents and the damage from the overspinning probably doesn't outweigh the 'easier' climbing.

Oh, unless you're talking about the actual Australia loop?

It was the anniversary ride I was asking about - was curious after watching he videos what kind of ratio you choose for a ride that long!

Any new youtube content planned? I see you've been kind of absent from the internet since December, hope everything's okay.

(I've done some looking around to the contrary and have crunched my stats.)

I hereby declare myself as the world record holder for the furthest distance cycled on a fixed gear bike within a one-month time period.

My crossing from Cairns, Queensland to Perth, Western Australia totalled a distance of 7,189.4km (4,467.3 miles) from 10:23 on 9th July to 19:46 on 6th August 2018. A total elapsed time of 28 days, 11 hours and 23 minutes. Annoyingly a hair over 4 weeks but well within your standard month. This ride was an impeccably fast and dedicated section of a full solo fixed gear loop of Australia.

Average daily distances cycled of 252.3km (156.7 miles) including my 2 rest days - or 271.3km (168.6 miles) without. Although most of my rides were actually quite a bit longer than this due to not really following any sort of pattern - often doing all-day, all-night, all-day then sleep efforts. Faster? Maybe not. Enjoyable? Ha. Trippy? Very.

The sunrise photo on the coast is from up in Darwin, the most northern point of my route, from where I ‘slept’ on a little patch of grass trying to avoid getting soaked by automatic sprinklers. Many dreams of being eaten by crocodiles that had crept up from the ocean.

I would love to see someone break this. Australia is definitely the place to do it. Super flat and nothing but open highway through a captivating landscape. And if this isn't actually the fixed gear 1-month record - I'd love to know what is!

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What an amazing read.