July 2009 Blog Posts (2)
I love my new fixie.
NOTE: This article is now maintained at http://bedno.com/fixie
For the unfamiliar, "fixie" means fixed gear bicycle. Fixies are SINGLE SPEED bikes, which means no gear shifts at all nor attending cables and mechanisms. But fixies take it a step further and don't even have the "freewheel" mechanism which provides "coasting" in other common bikes. That basic fact that the pedals always turn with the wheel (no coasting) IS the primary… Continue
For the unfamiliar, "fixie" means fixed gear bicycle. Fixies are SINGLE SPEED bikes, which means no gear shifts at all nor attending cables and mechanisms. But fixies take it a step further and don't even have the "freewheel" mechanism which provides "coasting" in other common bikes. That basic fact that the pedals always turn with the wheel (no coasting) IS the primary… Continue
Added by Andrew Bedno on July 27, 2009 at 6:30pm — 7 Comments
thank you Todd for introducing me to this.
Added by Dubi Kaufmann on July 20, 2009 at 3:00am — 2 Comments
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