Your Longest Point-to-Point Ride on a Fixie?
05-27-11 | 12:35 AM
#1
Thread Starter
This town needs an enema.
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 794
Likes: 0
From: Huntington Beach, Ca.
Bikes: Bridgestone 400
Your Longest Point-to-Point Ride on a Fixie?
Title says it all...what is the longest point-to-point ride you've ever done on a fixie?
Where did you start? Where did you finish? What sticks out most in your memory about the ride?
Longest for me (which wasn't far at all but I'm a complete fixed gear noooob) was about 33 miles from Huntington Beach, Ca to Signal Hill, Ca for a party. What sticks out for me was how amazing the beer tasted after the ride (it was my first 'real' ride and I was beat).
Where did you start? Where did you finish? What sticks out most in your memory about the ride?
Longest for me (which wasn't far at all but I'm a complete fixed gear noooob) was about 33 miles from Huntington Beach, Ca to Signal Hill, Ca for a party. What sticks out for me was how amazing the beer tasted after the ride (it was my first 'real' ride and I was beat).
05-27-11 | 03:20 AM
#3
Senior Member
Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 308
Likes: 1
From: Fairfax, VA
Bikes: Cinelli Mash, Scott CR1 Pro conversion, LeMond Zurich, Motobecane Fantom Cross Uno
05-27-11 | 10:58 AM
#7
sɹɐʇsɟoןןnɟsʇıbɟɯo
Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 3,986
Likes: 0
From: seattle, too many links
Bikes: fixed gear recumbent trike
take it you finished the STP in one day then? 
05-27-11 | 11:19 AM
#8
Senior Member
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 236
Likes: 0
05-27-11 | 12:15 PM
#10
sɹɐʇsɟoןןnɟsʇıbɟɯo
Joined: Oct 2010
Posts: 3,986
Likes: 0
From: seattle, too many links
Bikes: fixed gear recumbent trike
bring a camera then! you'll have alot of free time to pix the **** outta everything
05-27-11 | 03:11 PM
#15
Senior Member
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 158
Likes: 0
From: Denver
Awesome. I contemplated doing it fixed, but I decided to use STP as an excuse to build up a road bike. It'll be my first time come July, doing in two days since my lady friend's family lives near the halfway point.
On topic, my longest fixed ride is probably around 35 miles.
On topic, my longest fixed ride is probably around 35 miles.
05-27-11 | 04:11 PM
#17
Bicycle Repair Man !!!
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 27,266
Likes: 152
From: YEG
Bikes: See my sig...
100 miles... on my 1955 Raleigh.
A little secret is that on a fixed gear with proper gearing and a route that isn't mountainous you will often come off the bike feeling fresher than if you did it on a multi-speed... long distance riders know that coasting will kill you and with a fixed gear the legs never stop moving.
A little secret is that on a fixed gear with proper gearing and a route that isn't mountainous you will often come off the bike feeling fresher than if you did it on a multi-speed... long distance riders know that coasting will kill you and with a fixed gear the legs never stop moving.
05-27-11 | 04:31 PM
#18
You gonna eat that?
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 14,917
Likes: 543
From: Fort Worth, Texas Church of Hopeful Uncertainty
Bikes: 1966 Raleigh DL-1 Tourist, 1973 Schwinn Varsity, 1983 Raleigh Marathon, 1994 Nishiki Sport XRS
Originally Posted by bragi 
05-27-11 | 04:37 PM
#19
Senior Member
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 1,894
Likes: 0
From: Los Angeles
Bikes: Bianchi Via Nirone 7, Jamis Sputnik
I rode to Redondo beach and back from my place in Los Feliz once. It was technically round trip, but I didn't stop when I got there, just turned around and came back, so that's probably the same as point to point eh? 50 miles roughly..
05-27-11 | 05:16 PM
#21
.
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 2,027
Likes: 0
From: Columbus
Bikes: Pegueot UO8, Tommaso Augusta
probably around 20 miles. I don't usually do point to point as I come back home, but I hope to be getting some friends together to do some sort of a weekend ride to some cool place (yeah nothing is set in stone at all haha)
05-27-11 | 06:52 PM
#22
Senior Member
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 418
Likes: 0
From: Madison, WI
Bikes: Trek Madone, Araya commute
Point to point on my fixed gear would be 22.08 miles to work then the 22.08 miles home when I leave. It is in a rather 'hilly' area of Wisconsin so the commute is a little tough. Im geared at 48/18 so it is not horrible on the uphills and I can still spin it out pretty good on the flats and downhills.
Anything larger than 25 or so miles i'd switch to a geared bike in my area. The hills get verrrryyyy long and have some pretty good gradients.
.Chris
Anything larger than 25 or so miles i'd switch to a geared bike in my area. The hills get verrrryyyy long and have some pretty good gradients.
.Chris
05-30-11 | 08:43 PM
#24
Senior Member
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,301
Likes: 13
longest: back-to-back ms150 centuries, dead flat. 102 sat, 107 sun. ~20mph both days.
[technically a round-trip, over 2 days. does that count?]
worst: 105 w/~6k climb, 40-45F, wind/light rain. ~18mph.
46/16, comfy/fast steel frame, drops/levers/brake, 25c open corsa.
[technically a round-trip, over 2 days. does that count?]
worst: 105 w/~6k climb, 40-45F, wind/light rain. ~18mph.
46/16, comfy/fast steel frame, drops/levers/brake, 25c open corsa.
Last edited by dookie; 05-30-11 at 08:48 PM.
