Best single speed and fixed gear bikes 2024

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A single speed bike does exactly what it says on the can: it's a bike with just one gear. It still has a front and a back brake like any other bike but just fewer gears. And by fewer we mean just one solitary gear.

Riding at its most simplified form is riding a bike with just one gear. That's what the first Tour de France riders did in 1903 and what people still do today whether they are riding to work on a single speed bike or blitzing round a velodrome on a fixed gear bike.

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Singlespeed, fixie and track bike gear inches for a 700c wheel with 25c tire
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5210698.291.8868176.572.5
5110496.39084.479.474.970.9
5010294.588.182.877.873.669.6
4999.792.686.58176.27268.3
4897.690.884.779.474.670.666.9
4795.888.982.877.87369.165.4
4693.78681.276.271.767.764
4591.584.979.474.370.166.162.7
4489.483.177.572.868.564.661.4

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