Fixed Gear Rides
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June 11, 2013 at 1:18 am #972526
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ParticipantMe, I’m waiting for dirt to lead a FG version of kill bill.
Sorry don’t know of any fixed rides but would be into it too.
June 11, 2013 at 1:41 am #972529eminva
ParticipantIsn’t this what alley cats are for?
Liz
June 11, 2013 at 2:10 am #972533Dirt
ParticipantLots of my rides tend to be lead from a fixie. I ride an MTB fixie, gravel grinder rig fixie and one of many road fixies. I even own a fixie touring bike that gets used as a commuter. We could get a group of 4-10 fixie rider sin a group ride. My schedule is weird and tight right now, though Fridays are relatively free for me.
June 11, 2013 at 7:42 pm #972605mello yello
ParticipantBack when I first moved to the area there was a group of fixed gear riders called DC Pirates on Bike Forums, which stopped using that name shortly after (2007 or so?)
Anyway, they migrated to their own forum, dcfixed.com, but the forum isn’t quite as active as it used to be, with DC’s high turnover it’s hard to keep a core group… it’s pretty much turned into DC’s bicycle polo forum (polo is fun, but dangerous). They’re pretty into bicycling, lots of fixed riders… but everyone rides everything, yeah?
Owner of the forum is John (spud), who also works at the Bike Rack in NW, and there’s a contingent that’s associated with the shop. BR sponsored a CX team… i raced a race fixed once, that was fun.
edit: ss. No way I did that fixed. But I did do it on my commuting rig. Have to get that built back up… I’m down to one bike now!Anyway, I know they did some races back in the day, the Easter egg hunt alleycat was the most fun one I participated in. They used to go ride Hains point pretty regularly.
Or you can look up the DC critical mass, which was never my thing. I think they organize through facebook?
edit: or- https://www.facebook.com/pages/DC-alley-cats-Polo-events/
June 15, 2013 at 6:28 pm #972994mwhatley
ParticipantIn the wake of the (amazing) Clarendon Cup last weekend, I couldn’t help but think a course similar to that (albeit with fewer hard turns) would be great for something similar to the Red Hook Criterium. No reason why New York City should have all the fun.
July 22, 2014 at 1:26 pm #1006393vvill
ParticipantOlllld thread I know, sorry, but I noticed there are more “urban” bike events popping up on facebook nowadays, including alley cats. Not sure if they’re FG specific, but I’d bet there will be many FG bikes at them.
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http://www.facebook.com/events/677167145665305/July 22, 2014 at 2:01 pm #1006402TwoWheelsDC
Participant@vvill 90798 wrote:
Olllld thread I know, sorry, but I noticed there are more “urban” bike events popping up on facebook nowadays, including alley cats. Not sure if they’re FG specific, but I’d bet there will be many FG bikes at them.
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http://www.facebook.com/events/677167145665305/I may check that out…I’ve had scheduling conflicts with all the other alley cats I’ve seen advertised, but this one looks like it might work.
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