For the last five years, this column has avoided covering one of the hottest youth-culture urban crazes in the bike world: the fixie — a minimalist, single-speed bike with a fixed gear and no ...

Fixies are hard to ride and kind of crazy. But once you pedal a bike without brakes, you won't want to stop.

On a fixed-gear bicycle, the gear on the rear hub is affixed directly to the wheel, meaning the wheel and pedals are permanently coupled. This is a less mechanically complex design than other bikes, ...

Taking the best both e-bikes and fixed-wheel bicycles have to offer, the Electric Fixie has an original design and is meant to cope with hilly landscapes.

At the start of the trial it was clear that neither the Judge nor the Officer understood just what a fixed-gear bicycle was. To help them visualize, Ginsberg likened a fixie to a child’s Big Wheel.

Fixie the name for bikes that have one gear no cables no derailleurs no brakes and cant freewheel that means that they cannot coast . KURT ROGERS /THE CHRONICLE SAN FRANCISCO THE CHRONICLE SFC ...

While you can’t coast with a classic fixed-gear because the pedals keep moving, the “flip-flop” hub allows you to convert the Kilo from a fixie to a practical, coasting freewheel bike by ...