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 ...

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.

My topic this week is the bicycle phenomenon here in Miami. Personally, I think that people picking up their bike instead of their car keys is awesome. They’re saying they really do care about their ...

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Single-speed and fixed-gear bikes are painfully en vogue at the present moment. Skinny jeans. Mustaches. U-locks in back pockets. Take a glance in the urban core of almost any American city and within ...