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Old 19-12-15, 11:11 AM   #4201
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Never mind... I floated the idea on a local group and got a whole bunch of useful replies. Direct drive middle gear, 25% increments in low range and 10% increments in the high range is the consensus.
It's been a busy week and was trying to get my head around what you were trying to achieve, I've never even considered the idea of a geared fixie ...interesting.

I've been working on my 20" folder just upgraded the 8 speed 11-32 to Sram Dual Drive 3 speed hub with 10 speed 11-25 cassette, this should give a similar range of gearing as 700c with a compact. Looking forward to giving it a proper test soon...
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Old 19-12-15, 01:56 PM   #4202
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It's been a busy week and was trying to get my head around what you were trying to achieve, I've never even considered the idea of a geared fixie ...interesting.

I've been working on my 20" folder just upgraded the 8 speed 11-32 to Sram Dual Drive 3 speed hub with 10 speed 11-25 cassette, this should give a similar range of gearing as 700c with a compact. Looking forward to giving it a proper test soon...
It is just to make it more rideable through the hills and more flexible on the flat.
I'm a bit of a purist at heart and mine is a single speed, but even I get its shortcomings on the road. TBH I'd ride mine a lot more if it was better suited to the roads I'm riding.
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Old 19-12-15, 02:04 PM   #4203
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Ah Matt I was joking

There is so much I'm learning the now it's all good but a little bewildering.

No worries... I was yanking your chain a little. A couple of the guys who I would have liked to have heard from took a pass, that's fine, but I figured it wasn't for this forum... Besides, the post looked like something my dog had killed and torn to pieces! It was gruesome!

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Old 19-12-15, 03:29 PM   #4204
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Oh shame I'm still not ready for really technical stuff.

Well today's ride was a success made it up Crow Road, it took me twice the time of the KOM, but I don't care it's another first for me, was mental though coming back down I almost came to a stop because of the wind.

The Ultegra brake blocks are brilliant compared to the standard ones. Also got to see a Ribble Sportive Racing with the Ultegra groupset. It's a bonny bike in its understated black
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Old 20-12-15, 11:44 AM   #4205
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Dean, with a few thousand miles it becomes clearer.

This morning's ride attracted nearly 30 riders of varying abilities and we split off into two groups. Those going over the hump and those not... the latter group also got a route that was about 17km shorter. We were to meet somewhere near the coast and it turned it into a good chase...
The first climb is only 6km and a very consistent 5%. The first 2km started off fairly casually then it is every person for themselves for the next 4km. It's a legs and lungs screaming sprint to the line. What follows is 3.5km of gentle down hill to recover then a 6.5km 2-2.5% climb to the summit.
Everyone was working well together and the pace was consistently around 60kph from the top of the climb to the coast... There's 22km of downhill and I'm pretty sure we were all snapped by a speed camera at about 72kph just as we got back into the city. We caught the other group in the last couple of kilometres and the rest was a social ride.

Lunch was much bigger than I expected. About 80 adults and what seemed like 300 screaming kids to rattle my nerves. The ladies did a smashing job of the catering and everyone had a great time.
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Old 20-12-15, 02:12 PM   #4206
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November and December have been shocking for my cycling this year. I've ended up doing 5-7 hours per week on the rollers. Since Nov 22nd I've done 2 rides outside!

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Old 20-12-15, 07:41 PM   #4207
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Same here
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Old 20-12-15, 08:11 PM   #4208
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Is it just me that's daft then? I know I don't get far on each ride but I've done 205km since the start of December (which is more than I managed in the first two months. )
Weathers been great for this time of year I'm gonna use it.

Today was mostly spent looking at wheelsets and tyres, chances are I won't be buying mind you.
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Is it just me that's daft then? I know I don't get far on each ride but I've done 205km since the start of December (which is more than I managed in the first two months. )
Weathers been great for this time of year I'm gonna use it.

Today was mostly spent looking at wheelsets and tyres, chances are I won't be buying mind you.
I've done about 300 miles this month. That's mainly indoors though. I've spent too many winters riding around in the rain lol

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November and December have been shocking for my cycling this year. I've ended up doing 5-7 hours per week on the rollers. Since Nov 22nd I've done 2 rides outside!

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We've been very lucky with the weather in Essex this December, it's been warm with plenty of dry days ...more like October.
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