Meanings of fixie in anglès

But the old-style seats look quite ridiculous on a modern, clean-lined fixie.

And is it just me or do you hardly ever see somebody actually riding a fixie?

All it needs is some garish coloring and it could be marketed to the fixie-fashion crowd.

Just don't roll up on some chromed-out fixie, because not even the 705 can see Lazor coming.

Is it any coincidence that almost the entire Wired.com team are both Mac users and fixie riders?

It adds a brake light to your bike, whether using cantilevers, side-pulls, disk or running a no-braked fixie.

As always, fixie riders took the form but not the function, so we have to contend with this eyesore.

Do you really think that locking a fixie to a railing using a single D-lock around the seat-stem is secure?

Given that a typical "fixie" rider swaps wheels on an almost monthly basis, this should be plenty long enough.

If you took a swaying, brainless, gazelle-like catwalk model and turned her into a bike, a fixie is what you'd get.

It's for the fixie rider who wants to take a victory lap down Sand Hill Road after taking their bike messenger service public.

Cycle couriers, the deities of fixie fashion, use these five-spoked wheels so they can more quickly sling a chain through the front wheel.

For a fixie, though, it is nothing more than posing -if the riders were that worried about safety, they'd buy a front brake.

Riding a fixie is fun, but sometimes you want to switch from fixed-gear to freewheel so you can lay back and take it easy.

Fixie is short for "fixed gear," meaning the rear wheel and the pedals are connected through a single gear anchored to the rear wheel.

But the old-style seats look quite ridiculous on a modern, clean-lined fixie.