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Video: What happens when a world class trials rider tries a 700c fixed… Awesome

Chris Ackrigg's trys fixed for a week and kicks serious arse...

Here's a great bike video, Chris Akrigg's first week riding a fixed bike, it's proof that good bike handlers can ride anything, and that there's nothing like spending your formative years riding trials and BMX to sharpen up your handling skills and elevate your pain threshold. Akrigg is world class trials rider and is sponsored by Mongoose to ride trials, BMX and various forms of mountain bike … now he rides fixed too.

One gear No idea from chris akrigg on Vimeo.

If Mongoose make it Akrigg will ride it for them, and he decided to give the fixed thing a go when his sponsor added the Maurice Fixie to its range. Nick Larsen from Charge has also been encouraging him to have a go.

"Chris Akrigg is my good friend... I have been telling him for a while to give the FIxed thing a go. 1 week after his feet first hit a fixed pedal and here is what we have."

We won't spoil it for you, but some of what Chris manages would be exceptional on any bike let alone a fixed gear machine with  700c wheels. We can't claim to have seen every fixed video… but from what we have seen we reckon that after a week he might already be the best. 

Enjoy! And watch it right to the very end, past the credits, for proof that pro bike riders really do have cojones of steel. Bonus surprise for us is that at one point he rides past the road.cc offices – how cool is that?!

road.cc's founder and first editor, nowadays to be found riding a spreadsheet. Tony's journey in cycling media started in 1997 as production editor and then deputy editor of Total Bike, acting editor of Total Mountain Bike and then seven years as editor of Cycling Plus. He launched his first cycling website - the Cycling Plus Forum at the turn of the century. In 2006 he left C+ to head up the launch team for Bike Radar which he edited until 2008, when he co-launched the multi-award winning road.cc - finally handing on the reins in 2021 to Jack Sexty. His favourite ride is his ‘commute’ - which he does most days inc weekends and he’s been cycle-commuting since 1994. His favourite bikes are titanium and have disc brakes, though he'd like to own a carbon bike one day.

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bmthgil | 15 years ago
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cool video !! B)

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TRs Blurb n Blog | 15 years ago
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Check out his other videos on his website
http://chrisakrigg.com/?page_id=3

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TRs Blurb n Blog | 15 years ago
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this is a quote from Chris Akrigg's website:
"I’d never rode a fixie before and after the first ride i wasn’t to bothered if i did again. But i must admit i really got into it, i think mainly because its just so hard especially when you try to ride anything other than flat ground"
What gets me is that he doesn't have any toe straps either. If you have ridden a fixie, you will know how hard this is. When I looked further into what Chris has been doing on a bike I found that he is doing aggressive trials riding 'brakeless'! With a freewheel!

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NigelR | 15 years ago
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Another bike! The boss would only allow it if it was free......

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Gilbo Rides Again | 15 years ago
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Well, I'm going to be practising some of those moves myself, tomorrow, on my brand new Koney....I think NOT!

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jezzzer | 15 years ago
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ha he rode across the horse! love it.  1

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Tony Farrelly | 15 years ago
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… and Craig MacLean, Jamie Staff + a bunch of others too. I'm pretty sure the entire GB sprint team a few years back were ex-BMXers

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OldRidgeback | 15 years ago
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Bear in mind that Chris Hoy cut his racing teeth becoming a Scottish champion BMX rider, before he switched to the smoother art of riding on track.

This guy has some skill, though I wonder if the wheels were square when he'd finished. I wouldn't let him my bike, even my BMX, that's for sure.
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