Originally Posted by
JohnDThompson
By "touring" do you mean loaded touring, where you carry all your gear and food with you on the bike, or credit card touring from one motel to another?
If loaded touring, I would advise against SS/FG at all; you will want and use as many gear ratios as your bike can handle.
This.
If you for some reason need to use SS (which really doesn't make sense for covering a lot of ground on open roads), I would definitely not go fixed. I rode 30 miles yesterday fixed, and even though I ride every day, I was good and sore. I was also cramping up. They invented freewheels (and gears) for a reason, and those reasons apply most of all to touring.