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If you look at my post in Hippy's Time Trial thread (#96, near the bottom of page 2) you will find a photo of my fixed TT bike.
I cannot claim to have done any super fast rides on this machine, but I doubt whether I'd improve very much even if I threw unlimited money at this problem.
For the great majority of TT riders there are not going to be many days when they are in sight of winning events outright, but there is always the possibility of impressing your mates with a better ride than they expected, and this is where a basic fixed wheel TT bike has an advantage over a state of the art machine which can so easily lead to embarassment if you have an off day (and remember, these are usually more frequent than the days when you're really pinging).
You may notice this frame has forward opening road ends. It's worth mentioning that these were originally designed in the 1920's to aid rapid wheel changing for the then almost universal single gear set ups, and I suspect TT riders in the 20's and 30's would have thought of track ends for road use as old fashioned and inconvenient.
I did try to move the original post to this thread, but it didn't want to work.