I went to the Milan to Venice fixed bike randonnee with my Mini125RD Max Speed prototype.
This randonee is in two stages, Milan to Peschiera and Peschiera to Venice. I took part only to the second stage (Peschiera to Venice).
This randonee is intended only for fixed bikes (link Translation http://www.ciclistica.it/content/mil...zia-fissa-2009
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I know the organizers. They are a couple of bike shops in Milan, Italy, they both deal with folding bikes and fixies.
The idea was to check out if the Mini125RD properly geared was capable to ride above 30 kmh for a sustained time. In the same time I intended having fun, to reach Venice and shoot a lot of pictures.
It turned out that the bike can cruise at 30kmh fairly easily, but I broke the rear wheel after 70 km of the 160 km total. I knew that wheel was fast but weak. I forgot my replacement wheel in my car and I had to walk to the train station and go home. Since it was early in the ride, by then I didn’t shoot yet any pic. Basically I have only the pic at the small village where I stopped. I might get some other pics from the other people later on.
Some of those fixies were really beautiful!
The wheels that I used were Matter Wheels 110mm hollow core 85A. I wanted to see if the hollow core survived such a task. It didn’t. The EMT core would have survived for sure, but I forgot the wheel in the car.
It turns out that the bike fits into a potato sack. I then attached the bundle to my rucksack. It still could be trolled around.
When we were at the bike shop back in Milan, we tested carrying around the bike with several messenger bags. It does fit bundled with a messenger bag. I’ll experiment this in the future.