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Let's be clear: these roads are better described as 'challenging' rather than fast.
Although there are some hills, there's nothing that can't be ridden at speed on a single gear. The last time we ran the event (2010) the fastest time came from Nic Hutchings who rode his modern TT bike with gears and did 1.4.26, but the fastest on fixed was Illy with 1.6.03.
Bear in mind that Nic is one of the most talented time triallists around at the moment, and that although we all know Illy to be a strong rider, he does not see himself as a time triallist, *and he was using a borrowed bike which he had never ridden before.
*So I think it's fair to say that the superiority of gears over fixed is not well established on this course.