When you say 'race bikes', most people would instantly think of the Tour de France or a madman throwing themselves down some DH mountain trail, somehow with a bike attached. However, there's one discipline out there that is only just seeing the light of day. Ever heard of a fixed gear criterium? Sounds silly, I know. It’s a discipline that has been around forever yet not many people have raced, watched or even heard of it. It's a simple concept: a criterium or crit, a race consisting of laps on a small closed circuit, known as the fastest and most intense form of bike racing on tarmac, except it’s raced on a fixed gear bike, yep – no brakes! In the last five to 10 years, the fixed gear community has been stepping out of the shadows to share the love for fixed gear crit racing and we are all here for it.
