California-based Luna Cycle is more commonly known for its high power, high-speed electric bikes. But now it’s offered something completely new: a stealthy electric fixie-style bike. And you won’t ...

Fixed-gear bicycles are still popular nowadays because they are simple, low maintenance, make for great winter bikes and urban commuters as well, as long as you don’t have to cope with steep hills.

In the bike world, few topics elicit as much heated conversation and interest as fixed gear bicycles (a.k.a. “fixies”). I’ve only tried a fixie once or twice, so I’m no expert on the topic, but I ...

This post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details. For the last five years, this column has avoided covering one of the hottest youth-culture urban crazes in the bike world: the fixie — ...

Fixie bikes, the one-speed tools of bike messengers and hard-core city riders, are usually purpose-built tools. But design houses Diesel and Pinarello thought fixies could use some prettying up, and ...

The fixie is a single-speed bike with no brakes and what is called a single 'fixed gear'. In other words, the pedals spin with every rotation of the wheel, there is no free-wheeling. Riders brake by ...

Yesterday at the Multnomah County Courthouse the law came down against fixed gear bicycles. On June 1, 2006 Portland bike messenger Ayla Holland was given a ticket for allegedly violating Oregon ...

A dude in St. Louis SAN LUIS OBISPO is giving up on his hipster dreams, and therefore on his fixie. Result: one of the funnier bike-for-sale Craigslist ads we’ve seen. I tried so hard. I dated a girl ...