Fixed Gear Frenzy Blog — single speed bikes

If you are in the market for a new bicycle with the purpose of using it to commute to work you may have heard of or seen a single speed bike. In London single speed bikes are everywhere in the form of old steel frame conversions, deep rim fashion fixies to dedicated track bikes. Here are some important questions you need to ask yourself before you make a decision. How far/short is my commute? Is my area hilly? What's my budget? Is there somewhere safe to lock my bike at work? Can I take my bike into the office? Do I want to take up cycling...

Now in stock at Fixed Gear Frenzy The Polo and Bike CMNDR is one of the new models from P&B that offers excellent value for money. It has an aluminium frame and carbon fork. See it << here >> 

We get many customers asking us about the differences between a single speed bike and a fixed gear bike so we thought it would be good to explain it here in a blog post. Fear not, all our bikes are both Single Speed Bikes and Fixed Gear Bikes due to them having a Flip Flop hub on the rear wheel. Flip Flop hubs have a fixed cog on one side and a single speed freewheeling cog on the other. This means if you would like to coast/freewheel/stop pedalling you can! If you are up for the challenge of riding fixed...