It’s kind of a silly movie, but with those six sentences, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Premium Rush character Wilee pretty succinctly states both the appeal and insanity of fixed-gear bikes. Now, as ...

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 ...

Indeed, the humble fixed gear remains a vital part of urban cycling, with track bike meccas like San Francisco and New York pushing the envelope and getting more and more riders on fixies. But ...

The Trocadero Fixie looks like a regular pushbike until you pull a pin that unlocks the main frame downtube, allowing the bike to twist in the middle and put the wheels wildly out of alignment ...

Fixed-gear bicycles are the scourge of modern bike fashion. Actually, fixies are almost nothing but fashion. If you took a swaying, brainless, gazelle-like catwalk model and turned her into a bike ...

A decade ago, one of the hottest fashion accessories in China wasn’t an accessory at all, but a bike. Fixed-gear bicycles, or fixies — known in Chinese as sifei — emerged from obscurity to obtain a ...

On June 1, 2006 Portland bike messenger Ayla Holland was given a ticket for allegedly ... that she was in violation of the law and that she must put a front brake on her fixie to avoid a ticket.