There's absolutely no practical thinking behind this wacky bicycle, and … that's kind of okay with us. The Trocadero Fixie looks like a regular pushbike until you pull a pin that unlocks the main ...

Last month, Columbia Pictures debuted “Premium Rush,” a blockbuster movie starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a bicycle messenger who gets mixed up in a criminal plot in New York City. The 91-minute ...

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.

Flying down San Francisco's hills on his flashy pink track bike, Ben Hawkins rises from the seat a couple of inches, leans forward, pulls up with one leg and pushes down with the other. He's slowing ...

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 ...

Yesterday’s post poking fun at fixies got a lot of attention, and we were, of course, accused of hatin’ on the bikes and riders. But we don’t — a quick look inside the Wired.com office door will tell ...

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 ...