As a student at Cal State Long Beach, J.W. Zhang saw a bicycle that changed his life — a sleek, single-speed called a fixed gear bike. It was 2011, the height of the fixie craze, and Zhang was ...

A quick definition: A fixed-gear bicycle (or fixie), like the very first safety bicycles introduced in 1885 by John Kemp ...

If you seek cycling in its purest form, look no further than the fixed-gear bike. No gears, no freewheeling, and (sometimes) no brakes — just rider and bicycle completely synced. Pedal forward, the ...

As a student at Cal State Long Beach, J.W. Chang saw a bicycle that changed his life — a sleek, single-speed called a fixed gear bike. It was 2011, the height of the fixie craze, and Chang was ...

Fixie racers unite! The San Francisco fixed-gear bike race, Mission Crit, returns for its seventh edition this Labor Day weekend after a three-year break. For the first time in the event’s ...

We are getting soft; as for me, give me a fixed gear!,” he famously declared. In retrospect this is almost comically recalcitrant, so none of this is even to remotely suggest that bikes shouldn ...

although in the past road bike gear shifters were fixed to the bike’s down tube. Interestingly, for electric city and e-mountain bike use, Shimano makes an automatic gear system, which will ...

The Buffalo Bicycle Utility S2 has won an award from Eurobike and earned a German Design Award. With components designed by cycling industry giant SRAM and made from heavy steel, the bike has rim ...

When you were first learning how to ride a bike as a kid, the bike you were learning on probably didn't have any special bells or whistles on it, aside from perhaps a literal bell on the handlebars.