A quick definition: A fixed-gear bicycle (or fixie), like the very first safety bicycles introduced in 1885 by John Kemp Starley in Coventry, England, is the simplest and, some (like me) would ...

Commuting on my steel fixed ... which for a town bike, is all you can really ask for. That said, maintaining it poorly would have been tricky for the previous owner because a fixie is such a ...