Sentences with word «fixie»

Once, there was a young black man crossing Fu'an Lu on a steel grey fixie bike and we nodded to each other.

They've linked up with Cyclope, «the first cycle shop in Paris to specialize in fixed - gear,» and made a limited line of shoes specially designed for fixie riders.

Dream wheels: A customised fixie.

During a visit to New York City, we had a blast slicing through gaps in downtown traffic, deftly avoiding fixie - riding hipsters and texting pedestrians as we traversed the Big Apple's urban barnyard.

(For example: there's not a separate rider for your trusty fixie — your basic renters insurance policy has got you and your two wheels covered in case of theft.)

Behind the decorative fixie they have batteries and inverter powered by a rooftop solar panel with enough juice to power the LED lighting and their notebook computers; there appears to be no provision for heating yet.

And no easy - to - build fixie was good enough for Marco, «I decided to add a ratcheting system to the bicycle.

UPDATE: the Bike Snob writes that it is not a true fixie, but a single speed bike with a freewheel hub.

The Funk similarly strikes a pose between city bike and track bike, and sports the ability to switch the rear wheel between single speed free wheel and fixie mode.

And, as Wired points out, this causes a problem for the perfect market — fixie riders who have to skid to a stop and wear out about a tire a month.

The butcher, the banker, the barber — some crazy hipster riding a fixie.

There are a lot of forearm tattoos out there with my literature in their hands as they canvass, and there's a fixie bike at home.

Imagine how well he could have done if he hadn't mistakenly thought it was a fixie race.

If you can't get a VanMoof, you should consider a fixed gear bike, or «fixie».

They re everywhere in subways on their fixie bikes in line on the cafe or they.

It takes a special breed to ride the fixie - super lightweight, single - gear bikes with no brakes and riders who are equal part skilled cyclists and suicidal nutcases who risk becoming a smear on the pavement every time they head into traffic.

Hyundai says the color palette of red, black, white and teal was also influenced by the fixie culture, and that many other combinations were considered.

This is actually extraordinarily clever, a bike even simpler than, dare we say it, a fixie!

Oh, oh, looks like he is on a fixie, too.

I'm not so sure how convincing a fixie special is, however I've owned a pair of Vejas for about four years now and gotten many happy miles of cycling out of them (single - speed and otherwise), so you're not likely to be disappointed.

I'm not sure how they would have got on with my fixie though, I would have had to warn them not to try and stop pedalling.

Last year pedestrian Kim Briggs was hit by a bike in London, a «fixie» track bike without brakes (which is illegal), ridden by a jerk named Charlie Alliston.

Ride a fixie to your job at a coffee shop / dive bar / tattoo parlor?

It all started in those trendy gastropubs - cum - bookstores - cum - fixie - bike - repair - shops, but now statement lightbulbs are everywhere.