Arash Guity can't stop pedaling. That's because the "fixie" bicycle he rides to work has no freewheel, which means there is no such thing as coasting. But Guity, a 34-year-old energy consultant, doesn ...

It was dusk in Wicker Park, and cyclists wearing fitted jeans, caps and hooded sweat shirts were gathering for a nighttime ride. Different frames and colors flashed in the streetlight — a Cinelli ...

Christopher Ingham rides a bicycle with no brakes. The fixed-gear Bianchi Pista he pedals through traffic each day is intended for competition on closed race tracks, and it lacks the hand brakes found ...

At 5 p.m. on Aug. 21, two sixth-graders raced across Seoul Saek Park in Yeouido, practicing skidding techniques on their “fixies,” or fixed-gear bicycles. With scabbed knees from repeated falls, the ...

Brakeless fixed-gear bikes were never intended for ordinary commuting. Originally, they were developed to race on velodromes—circular tracks where the ability to build up speed is all-important. Over ...

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What happens when you leave a Specialized Aethos in the hands of the brand's fixie-fanatic designer, Erik Nohlin? Well, this is what – a fascinating fixed-gear conversion designed and custom-specced ...

Many thought that the fashionable devolution of transportation devices stopped with brakeless, fixed-gear bikes, but Boulder’s Captain Obvious and crew continue to defy expectations with the 27th ...