From someone who has some experience with cycling holidays, you might feel it an achievement to do it fixed, but your friends on gear will enjoy it a lot more and will be a lot quicker than you. You will feel even worse being stuck behind!
Northern France is not totally flat, down the coast might be OK though, just get a geared bike off ebay and enjoy the satisfaction of cruising through europe at 25mph!
From someone who has some experience with cycling holidays, you might feel it an achievement to do it fixed, but your friends on gear will enjoy it a lot more and will be a lot quicker than you. You will feel even worse being stuck behind!
Northern France is not totally flat, down the coast might be OK though, just get a geared bike off ebay and enjoy the satisfaction of cruising through europe at 25mph!