Just out of Curiousity... Carbon

Personally I think that carbon fiber would be a great material for a road fixed frame (the bike nerd in me is already calculating how light you could make it).

I just dont know of many available (OK, Pearson cartouche), unless you use a pure track frame.

This seems abit like taking a porsche, adding floation and a propeller, and wondering why its not the most kick ass boat on the water.

I road a 50 year old steel road/path frame (complete with clearence for mudguards and pump pegs !) with airlite hubs and fiamme/mavic sprint rims during track league this year. Didn't notice any difference between it and a modern aluminuim track frame, and I don't think I'd notice the difference between it and a Carbon frame.

I'm sure Chris Hoy would flex my poor frame into oblivion, but for a 4th cat chipper like myself there's isn't much of a difference between frames.

I too have never ridden carbon and have no idea what it's like but would like to say that it's absolutely a bad idea to make fixed frames out of carbon. I've also heard that all carbon fibre frame manufactures put babies on spikes.