Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - STP fixed?

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marqueemoon
05-13-06, 09:52 PM
I just signed up for STP (http://cascade.org/EandR/stp/stp_routemap.cfm) today. Anyone here doing it fixed? I signed up as a 1 day rider, which makes gears a little more likely for me, but if we have a BF posse... well... I set up my Soma a little more distance friendly today just in case.

zerobug
05-13-06, 10:19 PM
It's always been held on a weekend that I had something else pressing to do but I've ridden some of the route in smaller chunks... there are only a couple large hills that I can remember being a PITA.
marqueemoon
05-13-06, 10:28 PM
It's always been held on a weekend that I had something else pressing to do but I've ridden some of the route in smaller chunks... there are only a couple large hills that I can remember being a PITA.

Yeah. I rode it in two days last year with gears. I saw 5 or so fixed riders. This year's route is pretty much the same.

chromedome
05-13-06, 10:46 PM
Shouldn't really be a problem. Just the one hill in Tacoma. But I would think the bridge would be sketchier?

Just find a gear ratio that you are REAL comfortable with.
space_robots
05-13-06, 10:55 PM
Oh man I want to do this, since I'm going to be there. I don't have much cycling experience in the NW though, what would I be getting myself into if I tried to do it fixed?
humancongereel
05-13-06, 11:32 PM
this time of year, not much rain. but hills aren't foreign to people in this region.

i've definitely heard of people doing it fixed, and have a friend thinking about it. no idea if the fixers have planned/are planning to do it in one day or two.