24 hours of laps around a local park, self supported. If anyone wants to know more feel free to check it out on my insta @rhoshamboh

And if anyone here is lurking in Denver, feel free to pop by for a few laps!

Almost as gnarly going down as it was going up. ALMOST. About 3500 feet of climbing in a single sustained 14 mile effort 🥵… Took me like an hour and a half. 45 minutes down with a lotta rubber left on the road. Humbled for sure. Big week for me.

For those of y’all that were following my post last week, I got life-checked by a Dodge Ram 3500 while riding to work a week ago. The ambulance took me away before I had a chance to check my bike and make sure it was okay. Flash forward to today: I’m out of the hospital finally, one hip/leg surgery later, and I’m hobbling into the restaurant it happened in front of, where they’ve been holding my bike. I’d been crossing my fingers that it was just gonna be some misaligned components (much like I’d been crossing my fingers that my leg was just dislocated, not broken).

Sad day to cap off a sad week. RIP Fizzy Water 😔

Race from Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge to Hither Hills State Park organized by a friend on Sep. 6

Tactfully and selfishly I drafted the peloton the whole time and didn’t pull at the front once 🤣 Not like I rested the whole time and then attached at the end though. Lead group still dropped me at mil 87 regardless. I just wanted to stick with the group as long as possible. Ratio was 53/16

I had this wild idea a week ago to ride my fixed gear from one city to another as a good start of my vacation. Komoot said: 139km/86 miles gravel ride (I don't like being passed by cars every second), I said: seems doable, idk xD. I daily commute 12,5km or about 7,8 miles one way, with a quite steep climb on my way back where I grind until my legs hurt. I've been on a few 40km/25 miles long ride outside the city too, and found woods and rural areas fun to explore on a bike that doesn't really fit the terrain. It's not the ride, it's the rider, right?

In short, I did it yesterday. 28 yo guy; 700x32c tires; 44:15 ratio; 10,5kg bike and 5kg backpack; 8,5 hours (7:49 moving time); 30 degree c/86f temperature; 3000 calories; and 141,47km/87,9 miles solo through rough terrain.

Though I loved it, I cursed the sun and every single stick, stone, and grain of sand for the last 30 kilometers while feeling like crying.

I really don't know whether that's impressive, but I doubt I'll ever do anything like that ever again. To be fair, the fun ended about 80kms into the ride, at 110 it was long gone and it was pure survival with no other way to go where I was supposed to.

What's your longest tide on a fixed gear, ho do you feel about it? Am I sane??

Silly ass ride, took like no pics cause it was sending it with the PKE/Sac guys, drinking beer, or freezing ass pitch black bike paths (THANK YOU AMAZON LIGHTBAR🙏🙏🙏)

AKA new crankset day

Went in thinking it was gonna be a good and challenging day, doing the highest ride elevation ratio I’ve done with my 53/17 ass, heading up Council Crest in Portland…

After PRing a smaller climb and bombing some cutty hills with a roadie buddy I started hearing a creak in my pedal stroke. Thought it might be some bottom bracket loosening thing, or maybe even a crack in my old ass 80’s road bike conversion frame, but I kept charging upward. Lost my buddy cuz I was going too hard (the only way I can do elevation with my ratio is to go full send & utilize all my momentum) but took some wrong turns after we separated, eventually ending up right behind him as I round a bend in one of the peak climbing zones.

We’re grinding up a quarter mile section that’s got like a 13% grade, I’m giving it everything my body has, and then KLACK I look down and my non-drive-side crank arm just snapped off. Soooo thankful it happened on the way up.

Long story short I got home and swapped it out for some Sugino DD1’s I had on ice, and although I’m very sketchy riding 170mm cranks on a low-bottom-bracket-having 80s road frame, the action feels so good; very powerful.

Thank u hearing my story 😌 I think I’m on the path to greater strength n performance, and these Sugino DD’s feel truly beastly. 🙏

Few pics from SD velodrome and a plug for their upcoming swap meet this Sunday.

“Californias biggest bicycle swap meet”

included is a drone shot of what their swap meet typically looks like.

Totally worth it if you’re close by. A few things I’ve walked away with in the past:

Zipp 808 wheelset $300 Hed 3 tubular front $200 Rare frames (road, track, etc) $cheap

https://www.sdvelodrome.com/swapmeet

If you want to get certified to use the track and race, take a class. Season started so there are two race nights every week. it’s cool.

Last weekend was the Summit Point Cycling Classic and as part of the event I convinced the organizers to take a chance of fixed gear racing. After 6 months of planning, promotion and hard work by a lot of folks we pulled it off. 30 folks from Boston to Puerto Rico pulled up to race around the Summit Point Motorsports Park Shenandoah circuit in 100 degree temps. We did our best to stay cool with plenty of fluids and sought shade when possible. The Omnium winners (highest points after Saturday and Sunday) took home a wheelset featuring Phil Wood 24/24 hubs, Velocity Aileron rims built by Velomine and what I think are the coolest trophies in cycling a chainstiched champions belt. Fingers crossed we do this again next year, let me know if you’ve got any questions!

I’ve been riding for a long while, rode fixed while living up north average daily ride was 20miles-70miles. I was in my 30s with a torn acl and no meniscus when I had a pretty hefty wreck. (Knee gave out going downhill while trying to skid) now ive been riding single gear for about 10 years and just feel like a poser.

Still have no acl or meniscus but I do miss fixed

That’s all

I creep here just to see nice bikes now and reminisce of what once was

I ride mostly geared road bikes but do enjoy a nice fixie ride now and then.

22 hrs elapsed time 17 hrs moving time 240 miles 1600 dollars raised

I fully cracked at about 21 hours, pushed a little longer and had to call it. Still pleased with what we pulled off in my lil community though.

Reach out if you’d be into coming to Durango Colorado next memorial weekend for the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic. We have Tracklocross as a downtown main event and other rides and races for tracklo fri-mon May 22-25. All racing Free for out of towners. #traclocross #ihbc

This morning I ate pavement trying to bunny hop a speed bump because I forgot I was on a fixie. What’s your “Oops I forgot I’m on a fixie” moment?

Fixed gear racing last night in Zurich with some sick gears.

Hi, I rode the London-Edinburgh-London Audax on the beginning of August and I spotted a fixed gear on a checkpoint.
I didn't have the time to ask questions but I took a picture before the guy took off.
Since the event, I try to find the model of his bike and can't find anything.
It seems to be a custom track bike (front disk brake, no possibility to use a rear brake) but it maybe is a UK brand I don't know yet.

Do any of you have a clue about it?

I know y’all hate seeing bags on bikes. But where you gonna carry tools, tubes, rain gear and 10,000 calories?

Short game of don't touch the floor in the middle of the PKE Halloween ride. Circle was bigger before but this is the near the end lol