a bicycle that has no gears and no freewheel, so the pedals must be going round while the bike is moving. Short for ‘fixed-wheel bicycle’ or ‘fixed-gear bicycle’
... maybe she’s just not used to having gears, bless her, after all those hours going round and round the velodrome on a fixie.
Submitted from: United Kingdom on 28/05/2013
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In the context of growing popularity, the expression fixed-gear bike/bicycle is now often abbreviated to simply fixed-gear (used as a noun), which is in turn informally abbreviated to fixie.
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fixie
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a bicycle that has no gears and no freewheel, so the pedals must be going round while the bike is moving. Short for ‘fixed-wheel bicycle’ or ‘fixed-gear bicycle’
... maybe she’s just not used to having gears, bless her, after all those hours going round and round the velodrome on a fixie.
Submitted from: United Kingdom on 28/05/2013
Featured as a BuzzWord!
In the context of growing popularity, the expression fixed-gear bike/bicycle is now often abbreviated to simply fixed-gear (used as a noun), which is in turn informally abbreviated to fixie.