As the name suggests, a track bike is a bicycle designed specifically for use on a velodrome (a dedicated cycling track).
Track bikes are fixed-gear bicycles with just a single gear ratio, no freewheel, and no brakes.
Traveling with speed is one of the most fun elements of cycling, whether you’re a road racer or you just enjoy hopping on your bike for the daily commute. But what is the world’s fastest bike? In this article, we’ll guide you through some of the speediest bikes out there, exploring: Ready to get to … Read more
Fixed-wheel bikes (better known as “fixies”) are bicycles with no freewheel mechanism, meaning that the pedals always spin with the rear wheel. In other words, you cannot coast on a fixie. If the bike is moving, so are the pedals. Previously only really seen on the banked tracks of the velodrome or with the odd … Read more
To outsiders, Keirin racing is a curiosity, an odd but feverishly exciting fan-favorite that crops up every four years at the Olympics, then fades out of view until the next Olympic cycle. But in the livewire event’s birthplace of Japan, Keirin is a 12-billion-dollar national obsession. Steeped in tradition, it demands a strictly regimented way … Read more