London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

Me and a mate have started an epic touring trip around the coast of Britain, one week/end at a time, on our fixies. Two day trips down already (Kent is weird!), with a couple of weekender's and a week planned for the rest of the summer.

We are blogging the whole thing here, and welcome any thoughts on paths, pubs and pitfalls to avoid as we do our revolutions round this isle!

We are also welcome to anyone joining us on any legs - we have a few mates who promised (it was in a pub though!) to do some bits - and even a couple of offers of "support vehicles" for the long stretches.

It's somewhere between 4,500 and 5,500 miles, by the way!

Day two on there now - and what a day! Faversham to Ramsgate along the Viking Coastal Trail!
Read all about it here

Only just realised you're doing this. Good work.

Well written little report sounds like nice trip.

What year will it be when you get to Liverpool?

5000 miles!? jesus, good luck to you fellas!

What year indeed Chris - maybe whilst we are still in our thirties! And half (shurely praise be to god!) of those 5000 miles have got to be downhill, LPG?! The one question I have, though, and I am sure someone out there has the maths to do it, is how many revolutions of the pedal will it be?!

If you are interested, we now have a Facebook group too - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19530489255 - come join the fun!

Now, who's idea was this...?

with a 72" gear, roughly 4500 revolutions.

I think you're out by a factor of 10^3

Inspiring stuff.

whoops, 4 1/2 million revs!! fuck!! that's a lot!!

Day three up there now - Ramsgate to Folkestone, with badly behaving hubs, 400 foot climbs and some stunning Kent countryside. Our next trip will see us complete our first county! And I am now thinking we should just circumnavigate England, rather than tackle the Welsh and Scottish mountains! Day three

You might want to rethink cutting out Wales as that'll send you right down the Welsh Marches. The coastal region will be less brutal.

if you go around wales you'll pass my hometown :) really beautiful place the coastal region of mid-wales. No people !! yey!

That is going to take years with only an average of 30-35 miles per day. Build the pace up lads.