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@Prime_heretic
Suspect there's few carbon fixed wheel road bikes as carbon's expensive high performance type material whereas fixed road bikes aren't really high performance.
Carbon road bikes yes, carbon track bikes yes.
One of the reasons I originally built up a fixed bike was because I didn't want to commute on my carbon bike, carbon's incredibly strong but can be quite delicate, a side impact or a deep scratch on he frame and that would be £1500 down the pan, not so with steel or aluminium.
Incidentally my steel 531 fixed bike weighs less than my carbon fibre bike. =D