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Thought I'd post in this thread now I've actually toured (ish) on a fixed.
Just came back from Belgium where a mate and I spent 5 days hammering around flanders drinking far too much beer and having a great laugh.
Real bonus is it's very flat so we didn't have to gear down and both used our 74GI London gearing which was fine - nice balance between good cruising speed without too much effort. Other bonus was we were staying in hotels/B&Bs and packed very light.
Both our bikes have no braze ons so we cable tied bottle cages on (tip: wrap tube in old inner tube and no marks get left - worked really well) and used MTB style seat post racks. Cable ties are a total godsend - got overtaken by a couple of belgians on road bikes down one path who paused to comment on the two bottles of beer cable tied to the lock which was cable tied to the top of my bag.
Total luggage carried:
The rigs:
A beer / rest stop (by an awesome but random micro brewery where a guy in a dressing gown sold us a bottle of super strong beer for 3 euros - which was fine)
If I was going somewhere hilly I'd definitely consider two brakes as we got much worse at leg braking a few days in. The seatpost racks make any out the saddle action tricky so any inclines (such as they were) had to be done seated.
All in all, awesome fun and made more so by being fixed