It is an extreme sport where the stunts share elements from BMX, artistic cycling, dirt jumping, and trials.

Street and park riding, that is more similar to BMX, is generally called FGFS (Fixed Gear Freestyle).

[1][2][3][4][5] Freestyle fixed gear riders style can be generally described as doing "BMX-style tricks on their 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.