It's a little known fact that today's fixie riding New York messengers are actually a completely different breed to the messengers of the eighties. New...
Month: November 2011
Jelly Bean Bikes single-speed/fixie review
The bikes from Jelly Bean Bikes are very definitely rides for the urban environment. Visiting my old home town of Melbourne the Jelly Bean was...
The problem with 3-speeds
Obviously a bike with only one gear has had the Essence of Bicycle distilled down to near perfection, Occam's Razor style. The single speed bicycle...
Fixie Maintenance
Why go fixed or single speed? Apart from, you know, everyone else is doing it? The big reason is often maintenance. Maintenance is the reasons...
More cheap online fixies
It seems the cheap online fixie market gets a new player every week. This weekend I hope to catch up with Ben from Jelly Bean...
ebay fixation
I've owned more 2nd hand bikes than I have new ones. Probably much more. It's always hard to tell at which point one bike has...