As a student at Cal State Long Beach, J.W. Zhang saw a bicycle that changed his life — a sleek, single-speed called a fixed gear bike. It was 2011, the height of the fixie craze, and Zhang was ...

Fixed-gear bikes, also known as track bikes or fixies, are the simplest, yet arguably the most elegant, form of the bicycle. Traditionally, they had no front or rear brake, no gears and none of ...