Dolomites but Fixed.
Clearing the White Noise, Skidding Through the Dolomites.
Join our Attaquer rider, Kai, as he spends a few days in the heart of the Dolomites to bring an idea to life that he'e been brewing for years: riding the Sella Ronda on a fixed gear.
Riding Through the Noise
There’s a kind of noise that builds up over time.
You don’t always notice it. It’s just there, sitting quietly in the background, humming underneath everything else. Thoughts, habits, unfinished things. The mind trying to make sense of itself.
For me, riding fixed is a way to cut through it.
It’s not about speed, or control, or proving something. It’s about presence. You can’t hide when you ride fixed, not behind gears, not behind distraction. Every movement matters. Every mistake, every thought. The bike doesn’t let you drift off. You’re either in it, or you’re not.
The Dolomites have a way of amplifying that. They reduce you to your smallest form. The air, the scale, the quiet, it all strips something away. What’s left feels simple, almost honest.
When you climb there, you don’t think about much. When you descend, you can’t think at all. It’s just instinct. Tension and release.
A brief sense of balance before it disappears again.
People sometimes think fixed gear riding is about chasing extremes, and maybe it looks like that from the outside. But the truth is, it’s not about chaos. It’s about stillness.
It’s about listening to the noise inside you until it finally starts to break apart.
There’s a difference between silence and absence. One feels empty, the other feels clear. That’s what I search for when I ride, not peace in the soft, romantic sense, but quiet.
A kind of quiet that still hums a little, but makes sense again.
The mountains do that to you. They remind you that nothing really belongs to you, not the effort, not the fear, not even the view. You’re just there for a moment, part of it, and then you keep moving.
Maybe that’s what this trip was. A moment between all the other moments. A reminder that the static never fully disappears, but if you keep moving, you can learn to ride with it.
