Roll up your pant leg and get ready to hop on a free fixie bike, the prize in this week's ultrahip Crave giveaway. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all ...

"Fixies (fixed gear bikes) are considered to be a strong indicator of hipsterness," argues Rohin Dhar at the Priceonomics Blog. "For those unfamiliar, a fixed gear bike requires riding in a single ...

The bike doctor placed the patient on a stand, readied his instruments and began harvesting organs. Gears. Cables. Derailleur. One by one, he took them off my daughter’s bike, stripping it down to its ...

Last Tuesday, Skip Tramontana listed “Orange Crush”—a custom-built fixed gear bike— on the Chicago edition of the classifieds site. But the ad in question wasn’t intended for anyone looking to ...

A dude in St. Louis SAN LUIS OBISPO is giving up on his hipster dreams, and therefore on his fixie. Result: one of the funnier bike-for-sale Craigslist ads we’ve seen. I tried so hard. I dated a girl ...

The genesis of this column was a report of fixed-gear bikes—fixies—becoming the favored accessory of hip urbanites in Paris. “The bikes are as much activity as social marker,” wrote a New York Times ...

All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Yesterday, a lot of ...

Group: Not much of a group, more of a hodgepodge; Sugino 75 direct drive 165, DID njs stainless track chain, Phil Wood track cog, Phil Wood lock ring. Shimano Dura Ace front brake, Dura Ace Di2 ...

(CBS SF) -- In the 1.1 million miles driven in autonomous mode, Google's self-driving cars have had lots of practice dealing with bicycles. But earlier this month an Austin cyclist had a strange ...

BEIJING—A multicolored messenger bag slung over one shoulder and short-brimmed hat cocked to the side, Nie Zheng parked his brakeless bike in the corner of a trendy cafe in the Beijing Central ...