How to set up a bicycle with a fixed gear, a single-speed freewheel, or internal gears: just say no to derailers.

Are you sure you need a bicycle with gears? The purest, simplest kind of bicycle is the fixed-gear bicycle. Riding a fixed gear will make you a stronger, smoother cyclist...and it is a ton of fun!

This article deals with the nuts-and-bolts of converting a conventional bicycle into a fixed gear.

A collection of testimonials from happy fixed-gear converts.

Read about my personal collection of weird and wonderful fixed-gear bikes.

Convert an old clunker to taste the fixed-gear experience.

It's an interesting theory, but by no means proven one way or another.

Simplify, simplify.

Does a singlespeed give you an unfair advantage in cyclocross racing?

Many cyclists are rebelling against the excessive complication, fragility and weight of current mountain bikes. More and more cyclists are discovering the joys of simple, one-speed bicycles.

If your local bike shop doesn't carry fixed gear stuff, you can get it here!

It is theoretically possible to convert a Sturmey-Archer AW three-speed hub into a two-speed fixed gear.

An even more advanced hack.

You can calculate gain ratios, gear inches, or meters development. with my Online Gear Calculator

A new and different way to calculate your bicycle's gears, and to compare the gears of one bicycle with those of another.

An encyclopedic listing of bicycle lore, technical data and opinions.

An inspiring report on an epic ride, the 2007 Paris Brest Paris.

Another epic ride.

Tom Kunicki's specialized calculator for fixed-gear and singlespeed applications

Into the woods without a freewheel!

You don't need a fancy frame to get started in fixed gear!

Greg Goode's introduction to fixed gear technique

Zillions of fixed gear bike pix.

Pretty pictures from Oz

Good site for the urban fixed gear fan, but they're wrong about the need for brakes.