Across Asia on a fixie? Silly?

Choose Big tyres, strong steel frames, lightweight kit and Brooks saddles. Choose a fucking big tool kit. Choose Sudocrem, Germoline, Terra Nova tents and Thermarests. Choose lugs, 531 and cantilever brakes. Choose a fixed-free double sided hub. Choose flat pedals and powergrips. Choose your riding partners. Choose Ortlieb and Carradice luggage. Choose not to buy your bike on hire purchase in a range of fucking enamel finishes. Choose building your own wheels and wondering what the hell you're doing at the side of the road with a Spokey. Choose sitting on your saddle hour after mind-numbing hour, watching the miles crawl by, stuffing cheap shite food into your mouth at every opportunity. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable airport, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up trustafarian gap year students they've spawned to replace you.

Choose your future. Choose fixed.

<3 charlotte.

@OP: personally I think 5000 miles across asia fixed is a stupid idea - especially if you've no experienced riding fixed.