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Both days were breezy from memory - April 1980 so early in the season. I got down to a
24-01 which is 25mph on 81" fixed which became my gear of choice. Once you got it turning you just revved and revved. If the course was a rolling road you could fly up the drags. I always found fixed a better option in time trials. When I rode gears I tended to changed to much and loose time. Three years later I did a 25miler and was hoping to go under the hour (25mph ave).I did a 1-2-37 on the Sunday and the the following day - bank hol Monday in August I did 1-1-12 which remains my pb. Just 73 seconds shy of 'going under'. Tri bars would have seen me under the hour but they were not invented then. I'm still proud of that ride. Even in the early eighties not many rode fixed. I won the the fixed wheel prize - £3. Then I undid the wheel and turned it around for a 64 inch gear and rode the 28 mile ride back home.