I recently saw a post of someone doing a fixed gear tour and just wanted to share my experience and photos from one.
The goal was to bike from Paris to London in a week while spending under $1000USD. Back then I didn't have nor cared about having the right gear so I used things like a climbing helmet, biked in flip flops (more versatile/saves on weight) and did it on my 2008 Bianchi Pista aka Biancha which was the only bike I owned at the time. The trip was less about performance and more about exploring new places. I bought a roundtrip flight to CDG and a one way flight from LHR back to CDG; so as long as I made that one way flight everything else in between was fair game. I didn't know about WarmShowers back then and used a combination of cheap hotels and airbnbs.
Overall spent 2 days in each major city and 3 days biking about 200 miles, maybe more because Google Maps back then was very inaccurate and constantly led me to weird abandoned paths or deserted areas in which I had to backtrack to the main road. I can't recall the exact amount but with the flights/lodging/food I spent just above $1000 which I was pretty happy about.
I ended up doing three more of these fixed gear tours which I'll post about in the future.
by gumbygabe