Fixed Gear PBP

News flash: France is not flat!
Big thanks to Temple Cycles and Audax Club Bristol.
Won’t be doing that ride again in a hurry! Luckily I have 4 years to forget all about how painful it was!
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[@jamescgarrett6356]

Thank you for the video and Chapeau on your achievement! I have a couple of geared bikes and a single speed. My go-to bike for longer rides was my single speed. It was Reynolds steel, 48:18 gearing and took 32mm slick tyres. Unfortunately, I was hit by a van a couple of months back - I suffered broken bones, torn cartilage and assorted soft tissue damage, but I will heal. My bike was written off. I have a replacement bike now, and plan to do a ride similar to this, or London-Paris next year. Keep up the great videos and ride safe :-)

[@TheHardCorePunkHead]

PBP on a fixie! Insane! Respect!

[@MrShiffard]

Nice work! Good to see Adam Watkins stuffing his face too 🤣

[@ceindeg91]

hahah yes a vlog in a vlog!

[@garyrobinson6247]

Chapeau!! It's now August 20th 2023 and the PBP has just started. All these great vids are inspiring me to have a go but I'll be 70 in 2027. I'll try for an SR in the next couple of years and see whether my body is up for it or if it's just a pipe dream. I'm amazed by your energy through tough times. Well done!

[@corra6]

Nice video! My name is Rafael, from Brazil. I rode PBP 2011 and LEL 2013 and loved it! Waiting for more specials videos like this. Good riding and I hope meet you around the world rinding a randonnee!

[@ceindeg91]

thank you Rafael!

[@jossemckenney]

Mad respect El! Got me excited for PBP 2023!

[@ceindeg91]

See you there!

[@durkintj]

Eleanor, You are so fantastic riding fixie across the Perche and all those damn hills between Loudeac and Brest et retour. Yes Normandy and Brittney are not flat as I discovered again in 2019.

[@ceindeg91]

I still don't know how I did it!

[@durkintj]

@@ceindeg91 Steady Pressure and Determination

[@cyclingsufferfest5209]

wow .. incredible .. at 01:35 ..its our own Jeff newberry from Austin, Texas !!

[@gbailey7610]

This is the best PBP video I’ve come across. I’m subscribing to see what you do next! Thank you for sharing

[@kc3718]

great achievement, capturing the spirit, very inspiring !

[@denverspin]

Congratulations! Epic ride, especially on a fixed gear! Well done

[@streesedstu1981]

Chapeau what a fantastic video and a fantastic achievement well done 👏

[@odetocycling]

Wow! Completed on a fixie and made a brilliant vlog along the way. Great stuff El. Something tells me you'll be back :)

[@ceindeg91]

Thanks Bob! I hope so but probably not on the fixie!

[@iancruz2304]

When you see such video you can’t complain anymore on a 11-28t cog

[@kurniawanbambang7782]

Really inspiration, great achievement. Make me believe pbp can be finished with single gear bike👍. May i know the gear ratio you use?

[@allvaleriano]

I did it fixed too. :-) Would be nice to be riding along with another person on a fixie. Sadly we didn't see each other there. I'm going back in 2023, but my fixie brevets are over after 5 years of full series in 2 different countries.

[@cleggycyclist]

Alice, El and Grace whats not to like. Thankfully no Bojangles (ha sorry Grace!)

[@ceindeg91]

hahah I think that's a request for a Bojangles special

[@ravigunslinger]

great video. silly question. do you have to sleep at the checkpoints? or can you choose to sleep in hotels/B+Bs/hostels etc? Would love to do something like this, but i need a good 5hrs + sleep in a bed otherwise i stop working properly...

[@ceindeg91]

No you don't have to sleep at the controls. I think hotels/B&Bs need to be booked far in advance though! I quite like the flexibility of a control sleep, but then it can be tricky when they run out of space.

[@krishnansrinivasan830]

Awesome :)

[@andrew097]

Why are you doing the PBP? I went out cycling one day and fell in with the wrong crowd. You were cycling with my club at about 10.30

[@Misterobozo1]

This got me excited about PBP2023. Like the one guy in the start saying 'do it now, next time I'll be too old, now or never'. -- What was your final time?

[@zlatkobrnovic8166]

Maschallah the beauty

[@BikepackingAdventures]

Nice one congratulations. And wow stumbled across another PBP video by accident. Feel free to check out my account of the ride over on my channel. Can't help but agree with the weather- bloody cold It was!

[@zlatkobrnovic8166]

Maschallah die Hübsche

[@stadtfuehrungen-fischer]

It‘s not very nice to complain about the „french organization“.

[@reneflippe3286]

Typical Bristol attitude : winge, winge winge !