You are reading a single comment by @bothwell and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@bothwell
While we're doing "how long it took", I left London Fields at 9:30pm and got to the beach for about 7am, 9 hours moving time, single speed rather than fixed. Hardly the zippiest of rides but not too bad considering my suspected-broken-toe-woe (pro tip: if you think you have a broken toe, doing the DD on it will probably hurt) and the fact that I haven't ridden a bike any further than 30 miles in about a month and a half. Hopefully my next attempt will be a bit nippier.
Also I hit dozens of potholes and I didn't puncture in any of them, somehow, but both wheels are hilariously out of true and wobbling like blancmanges. Ho hum.