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My bike has no braze-ons either, for my US trip I carried luggage in a Carradice longflap saddlebag, few clothes, 3L waterbag, army messtin and bivvy bag with a 1 man tent strapped to lid of saddlebag. Used small rack designed for use on front of bike, ie shorter than normal rear rack but ideal for saddlebag support and p-clips have never let me down.
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Thanks for the input.
I'm off to France this year on my fixed (also running SS) I have a question though with regards to racks. My bike doesn't have the eyelets to attach a rack, would you recommend a decent sized saddle bag or fitting the rack with p clips?
thanks in advance
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will most likely be running front and rear panniers and a handlebar bag with map case,
Unless your carrying gear for two people you will be massively over loaded! Cut down!
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cool, good luck, I'm toying with exactly the same idea but if fixed I may b&b / hostel it to keep weight to a minimum. I think the SW will be the worst due it's relentless up down up down no flat anywhere!
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cool, good luck, I'm toying with exactly the same idea but if fixed I may b&b / hostel it to keep weight to a minimum. I think the SW will be the worst due it's relentless up down up down no flat anywhere!
i know, have been talking to a mate of mine who did it on a £50 mountain bike on a whim last year, says the hills down there are saping but said the highlands represent much more gradual climbs. Im thinking of taking a smaller front ring to swap for these sections as i reckoned the weight/tools needed to change would be far lighter than the chain whip/lockring tool to put a bigger cog on!
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Wonderful!^^ osmosno. Looks brilliant, how little you're carrying. But... I have to ask ... hair wax?! hah. You're en route from Singapore to Shanghai... Cool.
I would like to try to get a kit like this together for UK stuff. I guess I'd need to add some wool stuff... I wouldn't want the electronics for a weekend or a week, except perhaps a decent phone. I'd also want to carry a bivvi or tent, sleeping bag and probably thus a stove. But no hair wax.
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Travel light
Great list there, although when I do Europe this summer I'm not taking the Mac. Will be packing light like this but still taking digital camera and Ipod.
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Thought I'd post in this thread now I've actually toured (ish) on a fixed.
Just came back from Belgium where a mate and I spent 5 days hammering around flanders drinking far too much beer and having a great laugh.
Real bonus is it's very flat so we didn't have to gear down and both used our 74GI London gearing which was fine - nice balance between good cruising speed without too much effort. Other bonus was we were staying in hotels/B&Bs and packed very light.
Both our bikes have no braze ons so we cable tied bottle cages on (tip: wrap tube in old inner tube and no marks get left - worked really well) and used MTB style seat post racks. Cable ties are a total godsend - got overtaken by a couple of belgians on road bikes down one path who paused to comment on the two bottles of beer cable tied to the lock which was cable tied to the top of my bag.
Total luggage carried:
The rigs:
A beer / rest stop (by an awesome but random micro brewery where a guy in a dressing gown sold us a bottle of super strong beer for 3 euros - which was fine)
If I was going somewhere hilly I'd definitely consider two brakes as we got much worse at leg braking a few days in. The seatpost racks make any out the saddle action tricky so any inclines (such as they were) had to be done seated.
All in all, awesome fun and made more so by being fixed
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Varied from day to day - biggest run was just under 90km, others were 70ish, 50ish and (my favourite) a 30km straight blat from Oudenaarde to Ghent down this awesome cycle only road alongside a river. We had great fun racing all the guys on snazzy roadbikes and trying to burn off the ones that drafted us
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long socks with shorts, you really are a cycle tourist.
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Im currently doing an internship in Biarritz France. I finish at the end of August and Im thinking of cycling back to England. Ideal opportunity to tour around on my fixed and as I have nothing lined up for September and the following months.
If anyone has done this before and can recommend a route to take, and a timescale I should be doing the 684 miles. I have done a few cycles before including the coast to coast but this was on a geared bike.
Merci
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if they did those bags/racks with a lower fitting, or some kind of adjustment they would be perfect. I'm off to the West coast of Scotland this summer and am hoping to get a few days of riding and camping in. but i'll need to be able to stand up without getting caught up on those bags
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Hi I'm a new member and this thread caught my eye.
Touring on fixed is certainly possible and desirable, I've been doing it for years. As long as you don't overload the bike, true even with multi-geared bikes, any terrain is do-able. Last year I cycled all over California, a place with extreme changes in altitude over short distance with light camping load. I took the Tioga pass at 3032 metres on a 48X20, 64 inches. I only used a front brake but would recommend using front and rear as descending long passes can cause the front rim to get very hot from brake friction.