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@andyp
Blimey, it's like watching dogs with a bone. Hat He Chewed speaks sense.
TTs in the UK are mainly held over set distances so people chase after times on fast courses, which tend to be on busy dual carriageways with traffic and no hills. The course Chris Boardman set the competition record on is based on the A34 south of Oxford. He did this on fixed.
TTs in the tours and the world champs tend to be held on undulating courses so are faster on gears, especially with any descents where a fixed gear would lose time unless you were in a massive gear.