Furthest you've ridden fixed is...

That's over 300k per day for two months solid.

That's over 300k per day for two months solid.

it may have been 3 months actually....if not close to four. Still fucking nuts, thats about 12000mi to cover.

I rode 300k in a day, fixed, on the Soma on last year's Dunwich Dynamo. Piece of piss! :)

I remember you going on about this at the time (back when I was new), and wishing that I'd carried on a bit further than my paltry 282k. This year I'm planning to push it up to 400...

I got home with 290k on the clock. There's no way I was going to leave it at that so I went out and rode another 12k around Ealing.. just to make sure. :)

I've ridden further fixed than I have geared.. how fucked is that?!

ToI though.. 960k in 5 days..

I've ridden further fixed than I have geared.. how fucked is that?!

Doesn't really strike me as odd, but then I think I've forgotten how to ride geared.

I got home with 290k on the clock. There's no way I was going to leave it at that so I went out and rode another 12k around Ealing.. just to make sure. :)

I've ridden further fixed than I have geared.. how fucked is that?!

ToI though.. 960k in 5 days..

Well, if you're going into multiple days, I've cycled across Canada. 5000 miles, 76 days, on a bike that weighed 80lbs when loaded with all the kit.

I rode this event - The Snowdrop Express 'fixed' a while back ...

http://www.beaconrcc.org.uk/audax/express/map.html

123k, unfortunately I took a wrong turn 4 miles from the finish and ended up doing 135k. A good days fixed training in the early season - highly recommended

Doesn't really strike me as odd, but then I think I've forgotten how to ride geared.

me too, haven't used gears since 1993.

hippy, why not do the ToI fixed?

Well, if you're going into multiple days, I've cycled across Canada. 5000 miles, 76 days, on a bike that weighed 80lbs when loaded with all the kit.

Was it on fixed though? :D

That's a pretty damn amazing trip. I'm gonna be hitting France later this year doing about 60 miles / day, but only for 14 days (the perils of a career). At least you've got plenty of villages and boulageries every few clicks in France, in Canada I bet you wouldn't have seen anyone for days on end.

Not fixed. I dont think I had ever even ridden fixed at that point.

People imagine Canada to be this very sparsely populated area but it's not so sparse that we didn't end up in or near a village or small town by the end of the day. More often we would ride through a couple of places, which was good for coffee stops and picking up dinner before the last leg. The only time that we didn't was when we tackled the Verendrye, a large national park in Quebec. We rode 100 miles from Val d'Or into the middle, where we stopped at a campsite and then another 100 miles out the other side, but there were plenty of people on the road and about 20 people at the campsite.

hippy, why not do the ToI fixed?

Because I want to do it fast. :)

I've ridden further fixed than I have geared.. how fucked is that?!

+1

Only a paltry 193k geared. Twice.

I done the Dunwich Dynamo then continued onto Ipswich for the train, only to realise the weather was gorgeous and went to Felixstowe. I then cycled back to Ipswich. I think that was about 180miles (290km). Needless to say I was in some pain the following day.

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Epic shit everyone, loving the mental distances.

I think the furthest I cycled was about 150miles in a day on my Marin, We got lost on the way back from a ride and ended up taking the longest route ever from Bournemouth to Southampton. Was supposed to be about 60 miles there and back.

Ended up down the hobbit in soton complete fecking knackered, had 2 pints of snake bite and I was away with the fairies.

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Ended up down the hobbit in soton complete fecking knackered, had 2 pints of snake bite and I was away with the fairies.

Oh, I LOVE that drunken-lightheaded-euphoric-knackered feeling you get after doing a huge long ride! Best feeling in the world. (Now I think of it, I'm looking forward to the day when I go back to recreational riding, and can afford to do things like this.)

haven't used gear since 1993.

Typical junkie dishonesty.

Brighton (on a fairly spinny 42:18). Surprisingly fucked afterwards, expected it to be a lot easier and had never heard of the Ditchling Beacon until I rode into it.

Kudos to those talking about 100miles+, your are considerably fitter / more masochistic than me.

few years or so, you mean it in the american sense maybe! right?

rode my track bike to paris from brighton last september, brakeless. about 140miles in a day, maybe more - got lost in the banlieue... i wouldn't recommend it over that distance! i stupidly moved my saddle before the ride and it gave my ankle a battering too. riding to greece in a few weeks, but definitely using gears!

me and bunnysquasher rode this event - The Snowdrop Express 'fixed' a while back ...

http://www.beaconrcc.org.uk/audax/express/map.html

123k, unfortunately We took a wrong turn 4 miles from the finish and ended up doing 135k. A good days fixed training in the early season - highly recommended

I was sure I was going to do Dunwich fixed until yesterday. Did 50 miles inc a few laps of Richmond park but got frustrated by my top speed being limited on the downhills; and if I went for a higher gear I'd worry about getting up the hills. Might get a road bike for that.

I was sure I was going to do Dunwich fixed until yesterday. Did 50 miles inc a few laps of Richmond park but got frustrated by my top speed being limited on the downhills; and if I went for a higher gear I'd worry about getting up the hills. Might get a road bike for that.

Dont get a road bike just ride it fixed when i did the snowdrop BS and i where the only to fixed there and we made it every climb and there were geared road bikes been pushed up the hills as we rode pass on 48-18.

I was sure I was going to do Dunwich fixed until yesterday. Did 50 miles inc a few laps of Richmond park but got frustrated by my top speed being limited on the downhills; and if I went for a higher gear I'd worry about getting up the hills. Might get a road bike for that.

There's only one longish downhill on DD anyway. Getting a road bike to ride it is a sure sign of weakness and probable impending death from girlsblouseitis.

I thought you were gonna ride it geared this year...