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29-08.-2004, 10:35 AM
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Longest distance covered on your bike
Simple...whats the greatest distance you've ever covered on your track bike, street fix, single speed. Let us know what your set up, gearing, etc. was too.
I've been training on my fix a lot lately and decided to find a long ride. It was supposed to be a metric but we ended up doing 70 miles. My set up- bianchi pista, 48x16 |
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30-08.-2004, 04:29 AM
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Re: Longest distance covered on your bike
70 on a fixed - that's pretty good.
I ride a SS 48x16 - stock Langster w/ Speedplay pedals, the farthest I have gone is about 30 miles. I usually use my 16 speed road bike for longer rides (> 30 miles), just so that I can use it for something. Since I got the SS I hardly ride my geared bike for anything except long rides. However, since I just found a potentially fatal crack in the seat tube of my road bike - it is 8 years old after all - I expect that I will start riding longer on the SS as well. Just don't really want to buy a geared bike. I think my next bike will be a higher end track frame built up for SS road riding. No rush though. |
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30-08.-2004, 08:37 AM
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Re: Longest distance covered on your bike
My 32:15 SS MTB went out for 100k's on Sat and another 100k on Sunday
a few months ago. That's the furthest I've done with one gear. It's actually pretty easy if you can already do the distance on a gearie - just takes a little longer. My fixie would've done 5-10k as its longest ride. I've still not used it to commute due to its poor brakes and my unwillingness to go brakeless. hippy |
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06-09.-2004, 02:51 AM
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Re: Longest distance covered on your bike
Sunday, 13th August, 1950. G**** was camping with the Girl Guides near Lyndhurst, in the New Forest. She'd been away for two whole days, and how I missed her!
As I started my paper-round (6 a.m.) it was raining heavily, but as I left Littlehampton - 10.45 a.m., the sky was clearing. I pedalled my 62" fixed into a light Sou’Wester, out through the villages towards Chichester, then onto the winding A27 through Emsworth, Havant and Wickham, to Lyndhurst, in Hampshire. After an hour and a half I had found a family camp, but of the Guides' camp - nothing. After a long and fruitless search I had to give up and start for home. In Havant a car spread me across the pavement, and in trying to straighten a twisted pedal I stabbed myself in the hand. The broken pedal forced me to remove my left crank and ride home one-legged - fixed has its advantages at times! I got indoors, heavy of heart, by about 5.45 p.m. - 130 miles, say 36,600 pedal revolutions, a wrecked pedal, a stabbed hand - all for nothing. In those traffic-free days 120 miles was a routine Sunday club-run, so my ride was nothing special - apart from about 25 miles one-legged. Happy ending? No! G**** sent me my "Dear John" in November 1952, and married someone else. All together - aaaaah!! |
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25-09.-2004, 12:11 AM
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Re: Longest distance covered on your bike
112 miles in 6:54 @ Ironman Canada (2004). Fixed. 38x15. Van Dessel Country Road Bob.
Future fixed plans: Vanilla e.t.a. Aug 2005. Furnace Creek 508 (2005). Trans-Am 5000 (2006)? |
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25-09.-2004, 01:25 AM
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Re: Longest distance covered on your bike
200Km in 7:56 Toronto 1989 (with several required rest stops)...
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27-09.-2004, 01:04 AM
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Re: Longest distance covered on your bike
50 miles on a BMX bike.
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27-09.-2004, 03:50 AM
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Re: Longest distance covered on your bike
i rode 118 miles in a day a few weeks ago. that was tough.
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29-09.-2004, 03:52 AM
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Re: Longest distance covered on your bike
I just started on a SS, 32 x 18, last Wednesday. This past Monday I did 15.4 miles. It is a start for bigger and longer rides.
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23-11.-2004, 04:02 AM
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Re: Longest distance covered on your bike
I've done 200 miles (Seattle to Portland) in a day on my Bianchi Pista (49X16). I've also done a few centuries on the same bike.
I raced my single speed mountain bike (Bianchi Buss) 50 miles at the Brainhead Epic race this year. There's something about on gear that makes the miles go by faster. |
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28-11.-2004, 11:32 AM
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Re: Longest distance covered on your bike
60 miles on 40 yr old Puch Bergmeister fixed 52 x 21. Sunday brunch ride with club.
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29-01.-2005, 05:10 AM
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Re: Longest distance covered on your bike
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well, this might be a bit unfair, because my fix isn't exactly a single speed, but i did 80+ miles on my Rivendell Quickbeam, which has two chainrings and a flip-flop hub. i have a 40/34 double, and a 18/16 on my flip-flop hub. i can't use the 34/16 combo because there is too much slack in the chain, but the other three combos work. changing gears is done manually. you have to undo the QR (QR on a fix! gasp!) and then manually put change to the other ring. it's kind of anathema for SS riders to have more than one speed, but you still get the fixed/SS "experience," and you can cover a lot more types of terrain. on a standard fix, i don't know my distance record.. probably 50 miles or so, but i've never pushed that hard for distance. The most impressive thing (I think) that I did was climbed Mt. Diablo with a fix. 42/20 gearing, I think it was, and I had a freewheel on the other side that I used for the descent. Front and rear brakes, of course! |
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12-02.-2005, 04:21 AM
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Re: Longest distance covered on your bike
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I've done a few centuries on my Bianchi Pista, riding 44/17. I hope to do a couple shorter fixed gear brevets this year (200k/125 miles & 300k/190 miles). I think the thing that makes miles go by faster at 49x16 is not going over mountains in that gear... |
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15-02.-2005, 03:45 AM
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Re: Longest distance covered on your bike
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That gear is definitely most comfortable on the flats |
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15-02.-2005, 03:58 AM
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Re: Longest distance covered on your bike
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It's all a balance, of course. It's the gear that let's me keep up with my gearie friends on flats and slight descents. I also do OK on climbs up to about 6%. Over 6% I drop off behind them. Over 12% I'm wrestling a bear and zig-zagging up the hill. At 18% I get just a couple dozen pedal strokes before I'm walking. |
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