What if there were strong winds?

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Well, obviously, my time would suck.

i know that dude that's ridden the penticton course on a fixie and raced very well at canadian long-course champs on a single-speed surly this year.

i say go for it - the style points are huge.

-mike

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you could save weight and only build your rear cassette with 2-3 cogs.

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Um, that would make it a double-speed, and not nearly as cool. I was thinking style points - do the race on a SS, grow some huge ZZ-Top beard for the race, and run in Chuck Taylors.

That's what i was thinking. 2 to 3 cogs on the cassette and just a big ring in the front, save by taking the front deraileur and small ring off. Of course weight on a flat course is usually not an issue.

Horner did the worlds tt on a fixed gear. I assume you mean fixed gear, as opposed to single speed. No reason it wouldn't work, if you could figure out the gear inch. Just do a lot of training on it first.

For those of you keeping track at home, "fixed gear"= "cool". "single speed"="commuter for those who lost their liscense to dui". Dont ask me why.

Dewey Beach

I think Marla and Brian would disagree about the second part







Oh, and this guy ... I think his name is Keith Bontrager ...



Why is he running with a bicycle helmet on??? Well, because it was a LeMans start and the bikes were like a mile away!!! Thanks for asking.

[reply]Horner did the worlds tt on a fixed gear. I assume you mean fixed gear, as opposed to single speed. No reason it wouldn't work, if you could figure out the gear inch. Just do a lot of training on it first.

For those of you keeping track at home, "fixed gear"= "cool". "single speed"="commuter for those who lost their liscense to dui". Dont ask me why.[/reply]

if you're putting it together yourself, there are a lot of flip-flop hubs available, some of which can be set up as fixed gear on one side & single speed on the other. i don't know if that counts as "cool" or not. i'm guessing not... but if you're doing 114 miles on it and get tired of not being able to coast, you could hop off & flip the whole thing around.

no way i'd do an IM on a fixie unless I'd logged a lot of miles on it already, & a few bricks as well.

I knew a guy who had a bike without a small chainring because all he did was ride the big ring. In 1995 he did Kona and it was one of the windiest days in history and his smallest gear ratio was 53x21. Needless to say his race was much harder than he expected.

If you take off the small ring and front der you are going to be real slow... You will have to stop and put your chain back on if you hit any bumps. I know some one who thought he was sweet and tried that. It was not good.

If you want to go down that path either do a SS or FG, don't tear down your racing bike.

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I think fixed gears take too much out of your legs over an IM distance. I don't think a single speed with freewheel would be that unreasonable in FL. I think the Chucks would be a lot tougher. That would be a fun way to race Fl on a ss. Probably a 52/15 ish would be a pretty good gear to start

Their are front chainrings designed for non shifting, basically they have taller teeth and no ramps.

Styrrell