With its hot pink sign featuring a yellow banana logo ... select each element to create a custom-built, fixed-gear bike. Shops like these are common in the big cities of North America and Europe ...

“I like to ride. Fixed gear, steel frame, no brakes. The bike cannot coast. The pedals never stop turning. Can’t stop. Don’t want to either.” It’s kind of a silly movie, but with those six sentences, ...

A quick definition: A fixed-gear bicycle (or fixie), like the very first safety bicycles introduced in 1885 by John Kemp Starley in Coventry, England, is the simplest and, some (like me ...

Singlespeeds or fixed gear bikes (fixies), as the names suggest, are bikes with only one gear and a may have a fixed rear wheel — meaning if the wheel is spinning, so are the cranks. These are ...

But the track stand, which are generally done only by riders on fixed-gear bikes, quickly became a problem. The self-driving cars are notoriously careful, and tend to brake when anyone else is ...

Learn more. Walmart, the new home of the hipster, is selling yet another fixed-gear bike. While not as stripped down and handsome as the not-that-bad Mongoose Cachet, the Genesis 700C Mens Fixed ...