Draft:Freestyle fixed gear

Freestyle fixed gear is stunt riding on a fixie. It is an extreme sport where the stunts share elements from BMX, artistic cycling, dirt jumping, and trials. The flat ground style of tricks, similar to artistic cycling, is called Trick-Track or Tarck. Street and park riding, that is more similar to BMX, is generally called FGFS (Fixed Gear Freestyle)..

History
Freestyle fixed gear riders style can be generally described as doing "BMX-style tricks on their fixed-gear bikes". The sport was "born from the fusion of freestyle BMX and track cycling". As early as 2007 people “started to see how rad they could get on a track bike, it started with skids and progressed from there.” Fixed gear tricks are very impressive because they require riders to always be pedaling. A 2015 poll of international fixed gear riders found that 11.9% report the use of fixie for tricks.

The earliest bicycle tricks were done on fixed gear bicycles. However, most modern disciplines of freestyle cycling utilize a freewheel type mechanism; a notable exception is artistic cycling riders also still uses a fixed-gear bicycle. The fixed connection between rider and wheel enables stunts that are difficult or impossible with a freewheel. The most basic trick called a trackstand is generally done only by riders on fixed-gear bikes.

Bicycle messenger culture in the late 20th century and early 21st century is a major influence to freestyle on fixed gear bikes. Fixed gears date to the mid-19th century, and bike messengers in New York have long found them to be dependable and practical machines for tough city streets. But it is only in the past few years that riders, inspired mostly by skateboarding and BMX, began to push the limits of doing tricks on a fixed-gear bike. The sport has mostly stayed underground, however, the mainstream Hollywood movies 1986 film Quicksilver (film) and 2012 movie Premium Rush contain stunts done by bicycle messenger characters using a fixed-gear bicycle "showing off stunts and deviant riding".