Fix Pix:

Below are a few different pictures from the fixed scene in the United States. As you can see, riding has become more advanced and more exciting over the past few years. Before recently, track bikes were ridden almost exclusively on the velodrome, but now, track bikes are making a huge name for themselves on the streets.

What's a fixed-gear track bike? It's as simple as it sounds. A fixed gear bike or as they're becoming more commonly known "a fixie" is a track frameset usually incorporating horizontal dropouts for a closer, tighter bike which runs on a single fixed-gear.

If you could imagine, a fixed-gear is operated the same way as any gear on an ordinary bicycle, pushed or pedaled forward to move the bike forward, but where most bikes these days would have the ability to stop pedaling and "cruise", a fixie continues to mash on without movement of the pedals coming to a halt due to a fixed cog and hub.

Once the wheel on a fixed-gear bike starts to move, so do your legs and the pedals of the bike, and as most riders become more confident on their bikes, the need for a brake becomes less necessary as the fixed gear can be used to stop the bike by applying weight to the pedals and slowing your pedal stroke by using the strength of your legs.

Click an image below to see what some riders are now doing on their fixed geared track bikes.

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