ryansexton

What is the furthest you've ridden your fixed gear?

I just got mine a few weeks ago, and its winter, so I've only taken it a few kilometers around town.

huerro

She did 1200k this year: https://sheldonbrown.com/pbp-emily-obrien.html

I usually don't do more than about 25 or 30 miles at a time fixed.

mander

There are some hardcore distance riders on this board who do double centuries and more. I have done fixed cents and would like to go longer. Big distance on a fixed is not uncharted territory; it's been done and you can do it too.

barba

40 is my longest on a fixed gear.

Moximitre

The longest I did was an alleycat that ended up being 45 miles or so and two centuries. I'm not a hardcore distance cyclist though, just a commuter and scenester.

Though once my road bike is finished, I'll be doing some longer club rides and training. We'll see.

ryansexton

Nuts. Furthest I ever rode was 120 K (I think 85 miles is the conversion) on a touring bike in one day, I can't picture being able to do 40 miles fixed, let alone 1200.

ex_ssn_yn1

that sounds like a blast. I do a 25 mile route every morning to wake myself up, in addition to all the riding i do throughout the day.

fetch

century rides fixed are ftw esp on those flats. i wreck sh*t

gfrance

I do several 75ish mile rides usually in the Spring, with some pretty good hills to climb too on the route.

raster

I know this might be a little OT, but do you tend to gear down for longer rides? I couldn't imagine doing in a century on 75-80gi, but I might just need to HTFU.

mander

I like a 69 inch gear everywhere. It gets pretty brutal on long descents, especially after miles of riding, but overall it seems worth it for me.

kyle!

i loooooove long flat rides. most i've done is around 30 miles in one go. i'd like to do longer but this city is too damn hilly.

thelung

125 miles was my longest day, riding from richmond va to virginia beach

xiamsammyx

i did a tour that was 60-70 miles per day over the course of 8 days... but the longest i've hit in a single is probably 100ish.

Sizzle-Chest

in june, i plan to tour oregon on my touring bike, but i haven't decided whether to keep it fixed or put the gears back on. i would have to ride over two mountain ranges, one being the cascades, so i'm not sure if it's even doable. starting at the pacific, i would be gaining almost 10,000 feet in elevation.

the only way i could see it working would be to have a fixed/fixed hub with a 17t/21t surly dingle on one side and a 15t cog on the other. then i could run a double or possibly a tripple crank up front.

freeskihp

I geared up for the century I did. Usually at 71gi went to 80gi

once you get going you just fly

barba

Put the gears back on. If you are going to have that many combos, it might as well be easy to change between them. I am not sure how you would manage the chain tension with that set up.

Tangsooyuk

Ive done a handful of longer rides between 70 and 100 miles fixed, sans brakes, and at 82.5 gear inches. The first couple of times the distance was unplanned so I just ended up doing it, the last couple I just really wanted to spend the day riding but I recently gave my other bike away to a close friend so I had no choice. I guess Im lucky Chicago is as flat as a pancake. The time I did like 35 miles in Saratoga Springs, NY with all those rolling hills, including on the side of the thruway, I had a little bit of a harder time, lol.

tjfix

Dustin and Mo - 2 track bikes in asia. They rode from tokyo to osaka. Then China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia and Nepal.

https://www.63xc.com/2bikes/2bikes.htm

https://www.cyclingnews.com/cyclingtr...ixedtour.shtml

ken cummings

About 2 miles, then I got home and thawed the ice out of my gears.

mihlbach

I've done 127 miles with 75.4 gear inches...not really a big deal in comparison to riding the same distance with gears as long as there aren't many gnarly hills. I often ride much farther, but my destination is usually Bear Mountain or some other giant hill that I would never want to climb with a fixed gear, so I almost always take the road bike.

dubstylee

115 mi at 42x15
104 mi at 48x15

Many rides in the 60-90 mile range.

sniks

my taint gives out before any thing else.
53 miles for me two brief water and taint denumbing stops

Sixty Fiver

I'm looking to ride across Canada on a fixed gear, albeit with gearing swaps for certain sections.

My longest fixed ride this summer was 90 miles.

LWaB

A fixed Super Randonneur series last year, so 400 km in less than a day, 600 km in less than 2 days. Doing PBP on fixed was an option but not this time.