Touring on a fixed

This guy does a lot: http://www.gordontaylor.co.uk/

Just rereading this thread and found this in the above link:

PS. The fixed wheeler was a mistake this time. I was under-geared for a long time in the two flat countries and by the time the REAL mountains arrived I was exhausted. That's absolutely the last time I will ever tour on a fixed wheel. I've done 10,000 miles loaded fixed wheel touring since January 2005 and I can confirm what you've all been telling me. It's a real pain - in mountains, on rough tracks, on the very flat and when you are ill. Never again!!!!

lulz

friends and myself did 1514km fixed touring in summer 2010.
if you have time, try this, still the best experience in my life

friends and myself did 1514km fixed touring in summer 2010.
if you have time, try this, still the best experience in my life

Where did you go and how many days? Would really like to try some longer trips this summer.

from stuttgart to barcelona in 10 days

anyone got a ENO double haning around that they want to sell? I'm thinking of using one to tour ss but can't find them online.

I'm not that fussed as I think it might cuase chain line issue and I'll be better just running cogs on either side of the hub.

I'm also reviving this thread as I think a lot the the single thread questions can go in here.

^ TFG said they could get hold of one for me, but they're expensive. If your frame can take it, you'd probably be better off finding/buying/building a 36h freehubbed road wheel and using two sprockets with spacers - the chainline is adjustable, and you can specify whatever sprockets you want.

i toured the jura mountains with a guy on a fixed, we thought he was crazy. of course he was, but he managed and did better than us on our tourers.
those mountains are steeeep....

cycled to berlin on fixed track with a trailer. was fucking lush!

cycled to berlin on fixed track with a trailer. was fucking lush!
that is odd

how so? trailer carried clothes and camping stuff, while leaving me free to dump it and ride around unburdened

I seemed to have committed myself in riding 1800 miles on a fixed wheel bike from London to Morocco.

Oh dear.

What will you be riding?

fixed wheel bike

What will you be riding?

a fixed wheel bike?

Okay, which bike are you riding? Something you already have or will it be a new build?

What route are you planning on doing through Spain and France? I hitch hiked that journey about 5 years ago and I could tell you a way NOT to go...

Undecided, but taking the Portsmouth - Caen ferry (leaving Trafalgar Square), riding to the southmost part of the Pryeenes to Barcelona (g/f aunt live there) then ride and take the Tarifa -Tangier ferry, last legs will be Rabat.

Then we're flying home.

Ed, I think there is a blog some where of a couple who did that route on a pair of Pompinos

They did on a blue pompino with a large saddlebag and handlebar bag.

Read through this topic again to reassured my insanity of choosing to ride the route fixed, gonna be very different to my usual century ride on a fixed wheel.

b'dumph

http://pompinos.blogspot.co.uk/

Got this bike for touring, enough clearance for 32c plus mudguard (well, a bit tight).

ed, when did you get that bike?

genuine question, is that the kind of riding position you would suggest for touring?

Not long ago, Tokyo Fixed Gear was keen on I using their frame for a charity tour, especially on a fixed wheel.

Position not dialled in for such, it's set up as my usual road bike position from the fit chart (Bike Whisperer).

When the time come, I'll just adjust the stem to level with the saddle (it's those super-long one).

What was wrong with the other 8 bikes you got for touring?

Ed is to bikes what hip hop artists are to clothes

Ride it once when box fresh and then get rid of it

You pair of moaning old minnies, it's Ed's money, he can spend it as he sees fit. It is somewhat ironic to see the pair of you, who are not averse to buying a bike now and again, giving Ed some grief for doing so.

When's the ride, Ed?