As a student at Cal State Long Beach, J.W. Zhang saw a bicycle that changed his life — a sleek, single-speed called a fixed gear bike. It was 2011, the height of the fixie craze, and Zhang was eager ...

Discover an innovative DIY project as we transform a standard fixed-gear bicycle into a collapsible and self-locking model. Watch step-by-step as custom engineering, welding, and creative design ...

Out at the bike racks, crowded with spring-quarter commuters, the most recent breed of trendy bicycles looks just like other road bikes. Skinny tires. Thin tubes. Curly handlebars. But a closer look ...

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.

Went to the dump today, found a bike in the metal dumpster. Decided to bring it home and clean it, paint it, fix it up, and ...

One of the attractions of the fixed-gear bike is that they are cheap. Find an old beat-up road bike, buy a new hub and throw away all extraneous hardware. You now have a fixie. Of course, as they got ...

Velofix Indianapolis is owned by Brian Brackemyre. A long-time member of the Central Indiana/Indianapolis bicycle scene, Brian’s involvement and advocacy increased after being hit by an automobile in ...