Current Projects chat and miscellany

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.

So if you ride up and down A roads at a constant speed with no undulations then a fixed can be more efficient. For the rest of us it isn't (as proven by my own times on a variety of loops)
A long way of getting to the fact it is harder work not to have gears (which was pretty obvious in the first place)