What is the average speed of a fixed grear bike?

Question

What is the average speed of a fixed grear bike?

Answer 1

It's highly dependent on what gearing one selects and your cycling fitness, ability to spin, how fast you like to ride etc.

Answer 2

its all down to the rider, not the bike, although a lightweight road bike will perform better than a heavy clunker.

In my youth, many years ago, I used to do about 20/22 miles an hour for about 2 hours, but I didn,t like fixed wheels, too dangerous, but we did have double sided wheels with a fixed sprocket one side and a freewheel the other, not seen those for years.

Answer 3

Trevor - Flip-Flop hubs are still quite popular. They come with the Speciallized Langster for example (and I assume most other new Singlespeeds)

Answer 4

MR is right, depends on the gear and rider. I used to ride a fixie all the time. I had my gear calculated to spin 100 rpm at 16 mph. That way I could really spin. Made climbing easier and if I had a safe straight-a-way I could get up to 20 and really spin out. I would usually average about 15 mph. Does this help?

Answer 5

It depends on many factors:

-Your gear ratio

-The strength of the rider

-Where you are riding (hills)

-What tires you have

-Wind

A fixed gear could be just as fast, or slow, as any other bike.