Long time lurker, first time poster (to this thread ).
Living in Melbourne, the big annual event -
even for those riders who regard it as an over priced, 2nd rate, poorly run, LCD snorefest – the Around the Bay in a Day , rises is head every October. Sure, I’ve done it a few times. I think everyone in town who has a bike in the garage has done it a few times as well (which ever ‘distance’ it may be).
Anyway, I was chucking around the idea of doing the ‘lap’ on a fixie, a bike I have never owned or ridden, for a new ‘challenge’. Thing is, even just to build one from hard rubbish would set me back more than $300, don’t forget I do need a bike that can reliably complete just over 200kms in one day without going bad along the way. Especially when you’re relying on bike without a freewheel.
So my poking around kept me coming back to these Reid bikes. Now I can see what you get for $300~$500 for an urban-equse fashion statement, but if each bike is ‘built’ for a customer & the fact that there isn’t much to a ‘fixie’, I’m curious to see what scope there is in spec-ing the components to make something that will reliably & efficiently take me over more than a few thousand kms of fixed wheeled fan-boi fun.
**LCD = Lowest Common Denominator.